Re: [rtcweb] End-to-end encryption vs end-to-end authentication (DTLS-SRTP / SDES-SRTP)

Roman Shpount <roman@telurix.com> Thu, 05 April 2012 18:24 UTC

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From: Roman Shpount <roman@telurix.com>
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] End-to-end encryption vs end-to-end authentication (DTLS-SRTP / SDES-SRTP)
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On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:

> Define such an "alternative communications channel" and explain me how
> the signaling server cannot alter that channel.
>
>
I will send it to you using Frogo, my trusty carrier pidgin ;).

I can read them to you (possible to modify but much harder then simple
signaling), I can email them to you using some sort of trusted service, or
I can call you using old fashioned telephone. I remember times when such
keys were exchanged via fax.
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Roman Shpount