Encrypting ICE candidates to improve privacy and connectivity
draft-wang-mmusic-encrypted-ice-candidates-00
| Document | Type | Expired Internet-Draft (individual) | |
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| Authors | Alex Drake , Justin Uberti , Qingsi Wang | ||
| Last updated | 2020-05-04 (Latest revision 2019-11-01) | ||
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https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-wang-mmusic-encrypted-ice-candidates-00.txt
Abstract
WebRTC applications collect ICE candidates as part of the process of creating peer-to-peer connections. To maximize the probability of a direct peer-to-peer connection, client private IP addresses can be included in this candidate collection, but this has privacy implications. This document describes a way to share local IP addresses with local peers without compromising client privacy. During the ICE process, local IP addresses are encrypted and authenticated using a pre-shared key and cipher suite before being put into ICE candidates as hostnames with an ".encrypted" pseudo-top- level domain. Other peers who also have the PSK are able to decrypt these addresses and use them normally in ICE processing.
Authors
Alex Drake
Justin Uberti
Qingsi Wang
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