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Re: [AVT] SRTP store-and-forward



> 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!

I would say extraordinarily rarely. Indeed, this is precisely one
of the challenges that led to RTPSEC.

-Ekr