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

Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> Wed, 09 November 2011 09:35 UTC

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From: Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:34:39 +0100
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Let's define the purpose of WebRTC
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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
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