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February 2003
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Re: Any RTP/Firewall Experts?
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Mon, 17 October 2005 03:31
 
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| ZZT231 wrote on Sun, 16 October 2005 22:11 |
I'm trying to write up a research paper in regards to Video conferencing and I was blown out of the water by the IT Security person at my location saying it's impossible to setup a Video Conferencing System on the internal network as there are problems with the RTP protocol where it could exploit the network.
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your IT guys have probably said that in fear of the network being swamped by video traffic.
Our early attempts at video-networking from 3 locations was killed off by our ITS because of lame bandwidth arguments.
you could make a hole by setting up an SSH tunnel from internal to an external IP - but the traffic over the internet inside that tunnel would be encrypted, hence any network risks will be at the terminating points only. However, a properly designed LAN should not allow internally-birthed exploits to propagate anyway.
I think your IT security person is grasping at bullshit-coated straws.
Ask them "what particular RTP exploit are they reffering to?" and "is that exploit linked to an application or an non-platform-specific implemention of a particular protocol?".
Apple's iSight video cam and assocaited software (iChat and others) support secure connections over the internet - try comparing the protocols it uses and then search CERT for known holes/exploits of the same.
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