Niklas Höglund wrote:
I'd like all my communication to be encrypted end-to-end, so I like
the development going on in the jabber community on that side. Voice
calls are also very useful, but from a quick look at the jabber XEPs I
can't see how these two features should interoperate.
How should this work?
The clients should negotiate an Encrypted Session first. Then the client
should negotiate the Jingle Session. That protects the potentially
sensitive information (e.g. IP addresses) that is exchanged during the
Jingle negotiation. A note about this might usefully be added to the
"5.1 Resource Determination" and/or "Security Considerations" sections
of XEP-0166.
Note that this separation of layers enables the protocols to be used
independently, however, the fact that the two negotiations are carried
out simultaneously creates latency in the establishment of a call
(something that AFAICT is an issue in the "Real World").
Perhaps a couple of round trips could be saved by *optionally* including
the first <jingle/> negotiation elements in the <message/> stanzas used
for the Encrypted Session negotiation (instead of in subsequent <iq/>
stanzas)?
- Ian
