Eric Rescorla wrote:
> At Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:51:28 -0500,
> Dean Willis wrote:
>> Eric Rescorla wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately, this is the same conflation of concerns that has
>>> characterized discussion of these drafts from the beginning. Quoting
>>> my review of -01 from 2007/11:
>>>
>>>   This draft seems to do two distinct things:
>>>   
>>>   - One specify a variant of RFC 4474 which signs a lot fewer headers.
>>>     [This should have said less of the message -- EKR]
>>>   - Specify a set of mechanisms to cryptographically prove that a given 
>>> media
>>>     stream corresponds to a given SDP offer/answer.
>>>
>>> These issues are wholly orthogonal and it just confuses the discussion
>>> to try to discuss them together. 
>> They may be wholly orthogonal from one point of view, but I don't think
>> they can be deployed independently. You have to have BOTH measures in
>> place to gain the benefit of the proposal.
> 
> I don't see how that's the case. Can you explain?

Signing LESS than what RFC 4474 signs opens up a whole can of worms
UNLESS the media-path key exchange is also used to prove that the
signaling and media correspond.

--
Dean
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