I know that Brian Smith and Tanvi Vyas from our security team had done some research on authentication and authorization solutions for the remote debugging protocol (which we haven't implemented yet) that included protocols like ZRTP and J-PAKE. It would be a good idea to talk to them about this.
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Thinker K.F. Li <[email protected]>wrote: > For pairing, it includes two features. > > - Service Discovery -- find each other. > - Authentication & Authorization. > > UPnP is an obvious solution for service discovery. For authentication > and authorization, it can be a plain password or a 2D bar code. > > "Kan-Ru Chen (陳侃如)" <[email protected]> writes: > > > Yuan Xulei <[email protected]> writes: > > > >> On Tue 09 Jul 2013 12:31:13 PM CST, Fabrice Desre wrote: > >>> On 07/08/2013 09:14 PM, Thinker K.F. Li wrote: > >>>> I think BT is a very poor and slow option. > >>>> WIFI is much better than BT if want to backup data wirelessly. > >>>> With WIFI, we have much more protocols in the list; ex. WebDAV. > >>> > >>> Sure Wifi is faster and overall more flexible, but do we have a nice > way > >>> to do pairing to initiate the connection over wifi? > >> > >> We can use a randomly generated passcode (like the passcode to pair > >> Firefox sync device), or event a 2D bar code. > > > > Or use WebRTC! Isn't it provides a way to communicate between clients? > > Connection over wifi has to handle NAT traversal and setup the peers > > which has been resolved by WebRTC. > > > > Kanru > > -- > Sinker > -- > 天教懶漫帶疏狂 > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
