[Juser] IP and MAC address management in Jabber

[Peter Saint-Andre]

On 6/2/14, 12:44 AM, Rafael Mirto wrote:
> Thanks a lot Peter for these info!!!
>
> One last question :
> "No, the Jabber server is used only for signalling (call setup), not
> voice or video. The signalling is sent via the server between the
> clients and the server just acts as a dumb router for that data. "
>
> Dumb router for data, does this mean that IP and MAC addresses are
> forwarded in the voice packets ?

The clients need to communicate IP addresses (there is no need to 
communicate MAC addresses for any of this) in order to establish a media 
path. See for instance:

http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0176.html

This communication occurs over the "signaling path", i.e. XMPP. Even 
with OTR, this information is not end-to-end encrypted (because OTR only 
encrypts the <body/> element of the <message/> stanza, not the fully 
payload of <iq/> stanzas). We are working on ways to make that happen, 
but it's not the reality yet.

The media path communicates information about codecs, video resolution, 
and that kind of thing, not IP addresses etc. Using SRTP or ZRTP, the 
media data can be end-to-end encrypted.

Peter