[secdir] Secdir review of draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-protocol
Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Fri, 24 October 2014 03:30 UTC
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Subject: [secdir] Secdir review of draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-protocol
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Greetings again. draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-protocol describes a protocol for establishing a symmetric data channel between two WebRTC peers. The protocol is simple and clear. The Security Considerations section fully admits that: This protocol does not provide privacy, integrity or authentication. It needs to be used as part of a protocol suite that contains all these things. Such a protocol suite is specified in [I-D.ietf-tsvwg-sctp-dtls-encaps]. In the context of WebRTC, that is a completely reasonable requirement, and it would make no sense to layer a home-built security protocol into the one described in the document. --Paul Hoffman
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