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Re: [AVT] Updates to draft-ietf-avt-ulp



Hi,

The reason I see for keeping both is the following.

Most commmon use case, the one having the security context performs the FEC. In this case there are no issues with performing FEC first and then encrypting before transmission.

The case I think will be less commonly used. But which still is pretty useful case is when the media stream is first protected by the media transmitter. Then one realize that FEC is needed, and added by a node not trusteed with the security context. In that case the FEC will be performed on the encrypted packets.

It would have been good to have only one case. However I have heard of actually cases when this second use case is in use.

Cheers

Magnus

Colin Perkins wrote:
Adam,

On 1 Mar 2006, at 04:53, Adam Li wrote:
Restricting that FEC has to be before or after encryption is too limiting, I
think, especially because the encryption can be in a lot of different ways
other than SRTP. That section is concerning about the security consideration
in general and thus it may be necessary to talk about the issues one might
need to consider if encryptions are done in all different configurations.

If I remember correctly, all the other RTP payload formats make such a restriction. If there are current use cases for both orderings, then fine, otherwise I would suggest defining one method only.


Colin

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