Re: DISCUSS: draft-ietf-sip-dtls-srtp-frameworkdraft-ietf-sip-dtls-srtp-framework

Suresh Krishnan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.gen-art,gmane.ietf.sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Eric,

Eric Rescorla wrote:
>>> 2. Bob thinks he's talking to Eve. She is.
>> Not really. Bob thinks he is talking to Alice. The identity, fingerprint 
>> and certificate of his peer in the signaling exchange belong to Alice. 
>> He is encrypting all the outgoing media for Alice.
> 
> I don't think what you're describing works the way you're suggesting
> it does, because there is a *handshake* between the peers. Any
> asymmetry between the Alice->Bob and Bob->Alice flows is detected
> in the handshake.

That sounds great.

Cheers
Suresh
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