[VOIPSEC] SRTP

[Dan Wing]

> > I've never heard of SNOM, other than
> > http://spm.phy.bris.ac.uk/techniques/SNOM/ , but AFAIK 
> > there *aren't*
> > really any "standard" key exchange methods in this space 
> > yet so it it's
> > a bit unfair to call a proprietary solution "worthless".
> 
> Actually I would say that any proprietary solution is 
> worthless since you can't lots of different vendors to support 
> it.  Actually there are "standard" key exchange methods such 
> as MIKEY, RFC 3830.  However SNOM and OpenSIP project have 
> gone with SDP security descriptions, while not an RFC yet, 
> at least it is a document several vendors can point to vs 
> a closed proprietary solution.

MIKEY is an RFC, however the mechanism to encode MIKEY messages
in SDP is also an Internet Draft (draft-ietf-mmusic-kmgmt-ext),
in the same state as sdescriptions.  Both are in the RFC editor's
queue:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi?command=view_id&dTag=7877
&rfc_flag=0
https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi?command=view_id&dTag=1012
3&rfc_flag=0


The problem with MIKEY is getting all parties to implement a
common set of MIKEY modes (a problem similar to agreeing on
a common codec), agree on single network-wide pre-shared
secret (untenable on anything but a closed system) or agree 
to use the same PKI(s).

-d