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Re: [rtcweb] SRTP and "marketing"

"Timothy B. Terriberry" <tterriberry@mozilla.com> Fri, 30 March 2012 00:58 UTC

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Randell Jesup wrote:
>> Everything put forward today for DTLS-SRTP applied to the
>> browser-to-browser scenarios, but not gateways.
>
> Whereas I come at it from "I care about browser-to-browser cases and
> avoiding doing something that hurts them, and I don't care about
> security (other than sniffers) for gateway calls". :-)

And the difficulty is, a browser has no way to tell (a priori) when the 
other end is another browser or a gateway.

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