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WebRTC Digest – Week of 7/29 – IETF Berlin and VP8 Patent

IETF Berlin

The RTCWeb participants met at IETF 87 in Berlin. One of the big decisions was that WebRTC “MUST NOT use SDES” for key exchange. As described in this blog postSDES is not very secure since:

SDES uses the signaling channel to send the media encryption keys from one end of the connection to the other. This would necessarily allow the web site to access the encryption keys.

VP8 Patent

Several months ago Nokia filed a lawsuit in Germany against HTC over its VP8-compatible Android devices. Google assisted in the defense of HTC and now the German court has ruled that VP8 does not infringe on a patent owned by Nokia.

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