On 3/6/09 10:00 AM, Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
> Am 05.03.2009 um 23:50 schrieb Peter Saint-Andre:
> 
>> Right. I really don't see a need for having multiple e2e streams.
> 
> 
> I do. Imagine the following situation:
> 
> I want to chat with someone encrypteed, thus I negotiate a session. I do
> that using IBB (it's the default, right? At least I think we decided on
> that some while ago :)). Now I want to send that user a file. If I send
> that IBB, the server administrator will propably kill me ;). So I
> negotiate another session that is P2P for the file transfer and STARTTLS
> that as well.

Right. But those are two different application types -- the first one is
an application type of xmlstream and the second one is an application
type of filetransfer. They just happen to both use the same transport
(IBB), but the sessions are different.

Peter

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