Re: [rtcweb] Security Architecture: SDES support is a MUST

["Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)" <[e-mail]>]

On 7/20/12 3:06 PM, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>> Current security definition of WebRTC does not support end-to-end
>> security.
> The current security definition of WebRTC (with DTLS) provides
> fingerprints.
> If the application is able to verify those fingerprints, security is end
> to end; if it isn't - it isn't.

The security specification already does specify how the fingerprint must
be checked, against a third party system that must be trusted (unless
there is some recent update i didn't still checked).

The way the specification describe fingerprint must be checked, does not
enforce end-to-end security but always rely on trusted third party,
being IdP (identity providers).

The only way to achieve end-to-end security is not to have any kind of
trusted third party, as has been already discussed on
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg04043.html .

Until WebRTC security architecture specification does not clearly define
a peer-to-peer fingerprint verification system that does not rely on
trusted third party it cannot be considered to provide end-to-end security.

Fabio