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Re: [rtcweb] No Interim on SDES at this juncture

Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Sun, 16 June 2013 18:34 UTC

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On 06/14/2013 05:39 AM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:
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>> The architectural/non-cost argument I see against decrypt/encrypt is "the gateway wants to be able to disclaim the ability to look at the bits".
> I hadn't heard that one.  I'm not really sure how one could prove that anyway though, since SDES would certainly give the gateway the *ability* to look at the bits.  You would have to either check the code or believe the logs, and if you're willing to believe them then you might as well believe the code/logs that the gateway isn't storing/sampling the bits when it decrypts/encrypts.
>
I've heard Cullen mention it a number of times when talking about 
competitors of Cisco using WebEx for business planning.

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