Re: Pub request for draft-ietf-sip-dtls-srtp-framework-03

Dean Willis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sep 25, 2008, at 2:51 PM, Schneider, Peter (NSN - DE/Munich) wrote:
>>
> Allowing lawful interception does not imply allowing anyone to  
> intercept the communication. You must have access control for the  
> facilities that allow lawful interception. Compare this with the  
> authentication service described in RFC4474 (SIP identity). Who  
> controls that service, can mount a man in the middle attack that  
> cannot be detected by the means provided by DTLS-SRTP.

Which is why DTLS-SRTP allows one to run the AS on the phone, and to  
verify the media-channel key fingerprint in voice or out-of-band. If  
you do this, you can (assuming your OS hasn't been hacked), detect  
MITM attacks to the extend currently provided for by our mathematics.  
That's a lot stronger than what you get by trusting the bored hourly  
worker down at the switching center.

>>
>>
> Well, making DTLS-SRTP more adequate for 3GPP/TISPAN scenarios  
> (excluding lawful interception) without making it weaker would be a  
> good thing - better now?

That sounds pretty reasonable :-).

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Dean
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