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

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Sat, 05 November 2011 14:35 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
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On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Roman Shpount <roman@telurix.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
> If you get a quality problem, it would be next to impossible to
> figure out what's causing it with everything encrypted

It's actually not that bad. There are network analysis tools that can process
encrypted traffic if they are provided with the keys. They're a pretty standard
tool for debugging HTTPS. I believe wireshark can do this and I know ssldump
can.

-Ekr

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