------- Original message -------
From: Eric Rescorla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 15.3.'08,  8:35

> At Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:36:29 -0500,
> Dean Willis wrote:
> > You MUST sign in order to be able to use DTLS-SRTP effectively.
> 
> This is not correct.
> 
> Even in the absence of signatures, DTLS-SRTP provides significant
> value because you need to actively modify both the signalling
> and the media (what draft-ietf-sip-media-security-requirements
> calls active-signaling-active-media).

AFAIK (which admittedly is not all that far) if you have no fingerprint, 
you lose a key advantage of DTLS-SRTP, which is the ability to correlate 
media and signaling. Without this, we're still subject to all the media 
insertion attacks, some of which do not even require MITM.

--
dean
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