[52842] in Cypherpunks
Re: Edited Edupage, 24 March 1996
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Mar 28 11:44:57 1996
To: jsw@netscape.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Mar 1996 23:24:58 PST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 10:35:21 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Jeff Weinstein writes:
> > 1) I strongly suggest that SSL is *not* in its current form the right
> > technology, because internet phone type tools probably use UDP, not
> > TCP.
>
> I guess that is what I get for posting when too tired. Certainly the
> current SSL won't work for UDP based protocols. Either we will have to
> make a UDP version of SSL or use some existing protocol that gets the job
> done. Since our acquisition is not complete I haven't really had an
> opportunity to talk to the streaming media guys yet...
You probably want to look into the hooks that RTP audio programs like
VAT use right now to do their cryptography (yes, they do crypto) -- I
belive there is lots of precedent.
Perry
