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

Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> Wed, 09 November 2011 20:19 UTC

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From: Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:18:50 +0100
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Let's define the purpose of WebRTC
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2011/11/9 Christer Holmberg <christer.holmberg@ericsson.com>:
>> But if my call uses SRTP until the SIP media gateway, then it could
>> use plain RTP in the PSTN network. That's not so dangerous.
>
> So, in your example you are basically talking about "access network security", because you don't really care what happens (with regards to media security) after the WiFi access leg?

No. I said that, in case the other end is a PSTN peer, most *probably*
the call would end in a PSTN gateway which routes the call via PSTN,
so more or less "trusted".

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Iñaki Baz Castillo
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