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Re: [AVT] SRTP store-and-forward



Dan Wing wrote:

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Finally, as was indicated in the slides, keying for SRTP 
store-and-forward only requires that existing key management 
protocols 
are extended to allow also carrying information about CID, 
CCI and SSS. 
For the e2e keying in the answering machine use case, the sender must 
hold a shared key or certificate with the responder. This 
situation is 
thus exactly as when you send an encrypted email.
    

But we lack a mechanism to acquire such a shared key or 
certificate on the Internet for SIP (or email, for that matter),
correct?  I am told that MIKEY-RSA has some mechanism to acquire
such information but I haven't seen it described anywhere -- it
certainly isn't in an IETF document that I am aware of.

-d
When you refer to MIKEY-RSA having some mechanism to acquire such information (shared key / certificate) I believe you refer to MIKEY-RSA-R. In MIKEY-RSA-R the initiator attaches his certificate in the first message and the responder uses it to return the key to be used. This works well when there is an on-line connection between the two but  wouldn't work for SRTP  Store-and-Forward applications. Here we must rely on either predistributed keys or certificates or that keys or certificates can be acquired from an online third party. As I said before this situation is exactly as for secure email. And secure email is used!

/Rolf