Re: [rtcweb] RFC 6520 vs. draft-ietf-rtcweb-stun-consent-freshness-00

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 27 November 2013 17:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] RFC 6520 vs. draft-ietf-rtcweb-stun-consent-freshness-00
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On 27 November 2013 09:38, Muthu Arul Mozhi Perumal (mperumal)
<mperumal@cisco.com> wrote:
> From a security perspective, I don't see a real advantage of one over the other.

That's right, they are equivalent.  Unless you consider the risk of a
preimage attack on SHA-1 within the confines of the STUN message size
limit to be a realistic.  (I don't.)

Equivalence on security is only the first order bit upon which we decide.