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Re: [rtcweb] Consent alternative

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 22 January 2014 14:41 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Consent alternative
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On 22 January 2014 13:29, Tirumaleswar Reddy (tireddy)
<tireddy@cisco.com> wrote:
> If we consider B attacker is also capable of sniffing packets on wire, DTLS
> heartbeat does not have any benefit over STUN consent because B can sniff
> the DTLS heartbeat request sent by A and generate response.

This is not correct, but not really important either.  DTLS ensures
that an on-path attacker is unable to observe or insert packets.  If B
is on-path and able to read signaling, it can return STUN consent.
But we've already determined that on-path attackers aren't interesting
when it comes to DoS.

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