On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 02:08:15PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > The multimedia application also has a number of other special > requirements. I think that multimedia streams over cellular networks > are one of the few cases I've seen where confidentiality without > integrity may be reasonable. > > Humans will know if an attacker significantly corrupts a voice or > video stream. However the cost of lost packets do to corruption of a > MAC may be unacceptable given radio error rates. Although authentication can still help at least provide feedback to the user as to the quality of reception (100% vs. not 100% :)
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