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Re: [rtcweb] Let's define the purpose of WebRTC

"Muthu Arul Mozhi Perumal (mperumal)" <mperumal@cisco.com> Wed, 09 November 2011 10:57 UTC

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From: "Muthu Arul Mozhi Perumal (mperumal)" <mperumal@cisco.com>
To: Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>, "Avasarala, Ranjit" <Ranjit.Avasarala@polycom.com>
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|The "application" is untrusted by nature, and we don't want 
|to make the end-user to decide whether to trust it or not. 
|Explained many times in this maillist.

I am thinking we could burn SRTP into the browser such that the decision of whether or not to use SRTP vests solely with the browser. If a WebRTC browser is exchanging media with another WebRTC browser they always do SRTP/SRTCP. If either side isn't WebRTC compliant they end up with RTP/RTCP. This way we don't need to trust the JS, instead trust only the browser. We can also interoperate with legacy devices without taxing them.

Muthu

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Iñaki Baz Castillo [mailto:ibc@aliax.net]
|Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 3:05 PM
|To: Avasarala, Ranjit
|Cc: Ravindran Parthasarathi; Muthu Arul Mozhi Perumal (mperumal); Cullen Jennings (fluffy); Olle E.
|Johansson; rtcweb@ietf.org
|Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Let's define the purpose of WebRTC
|
|2011/11/9 Avasarala, Ranjit <Ranjit.Avasarala@polycom.com>:
|> I feel including all kinds of security mechanisms like SRTP, TLS, etc in browser would make the
|browser very bulky.
|
|Including TLS in a browser makes it bulky? Then we must discourage
|HTTPS usage, right?
|In the other side, have you really measured how much expensive SRTP
|is? it's not at all.
|
|
|> It would be better to provide a mechanism in the signaling protocol that browser supports to
|negotiate the desired security mechanism (depending on application requirement) and then use that
|mechanism (which is part of the system).
|
|The "application" is untrusted by nature, and we don't want to make
|the end-user to decide whether to trust it or not. Explained many
|times in this maillist.
|
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|Iñaki Baz Castillo
|<ibc@aliax.net>

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