Ben,
Ben Bucksch wrote:
On 09.01.2009 03:56, Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems wrote:
Of course, when it comes to audio and video chat, part of the very
data that's being transferred can serve to authenticate the other
party (voice print, video), somewhat reducing the need for
transport-level authentication ... This doesn't prevent interception
of course
... which is the key problem.
Well, that's one of several problems. It doesn't do you any good if your
traffic cannot be intercepted by everyone if you are encrypting it to
the wrong person because your authentication was too weak.
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