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The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)

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Network Working Group                                         M. Baugher
Request for Comments: 3711                                     D. McGrew
Category: Standards Track                            Cisco Systems, Inc.
                                                              M. Naslund
                                                              E. Carrara
                                                              K. Norrman
                                                       Ericsson Research
                                                              March 2004


             The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)

Status of this Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document describes the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol
   (SRTP), a profile of the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), which
   can provide confidentiality, message authentication, and replay
   protection to the RTP traffic and to the control traffic for RTP, the
   Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP).

Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
       1.1.  Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Goals and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
       2.1.  Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   3.  SRTP Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
       3.1.  Secure RTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
       3.2.  SRTP Cryptographic Contexts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
             3.2.1.  Transform-independent parameters . . . . . . . .  8
             3.2.2.  Transform-dependent parameters . . . . . . . . . 10
             3.2.3.  Mapping SRTP Packets to Cryptographic Contexts . 10
       3.3.  SRTP Packet Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
             3.3.1.  Packet Index Determination, and ROC, s_l Update. 13
             3.3.2.  Replay Protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
      3.4.  Secure RTCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15



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