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+Secure RTP (SRTP) Reference Implementation
+David A. McGrew
+Cisco Systems, Inc.
+mcgrew@cisco.com
+
+
+This package provides an implementation of the Secure Real-time
+Transport Protocol (SRTP), the Universal Security Transform (UST), and
+a supporting cryptographic kernel. These mechanisms are documented in
+the Internet Drafts in the doc/ subdirectory. The SRTP API is
+documented in include/srtp.h, and the library is in libsrtp.a (after
+compilation). An overview and reference manual is available in
+doc/libsrtp.pdf. The PDF documentation is more up to date than this
+file.
+
+
+Installation:
+
+./configure [ options ] # GNU autoconf script
+make # or gmake if needed; use GNU make
+
+The configure script accepts the following options:
+
+ --help provides a usage summary
+ --disable-debug compile without the runtime debugging system
+ --enable-syslog use syslog for error reporting
+ --disable-stdout use stdout for error reporting
+ --enable-console use /dev/console for error reporting
+ --gdoi use GDOI key management (disabled at present)
+
+By default, debbuging is enabled and stdout is used for debugging.
+You can use the above configure options to have the debugging output
+sent to syslog or the system console. Alternatively, you can define
+ERR_REPORTING_FILE in include/conf.h to be any other file that can be
+opened by libSRTP, and debug messages will be sent to it.
+
+This package has been tested on Mac OS X (powerpc-apple-darwin1.4),
+Cygwin (i686-pc-cygwin), and Sparc (sparc-sun-solaris2.6). Previous
+versions have been tested on Linux and OpenBSD on both x86 and sparc
+platforms.
+
+A quick tour of this package:
+
+Makefile targets: all, clean, ...
+README this file
+CHANGES change log
+VERSION version number of this package
+LICENSE legal details (it's a BSD-like license)
+crypto/ciphers/ ciphers (null, aes_icm, ...)
+crypto/math/ crypto math routines
+crypto/hash/ crypto hashing (hmac, tmmhv2, ...)
+crypto/replay/ replay protection
+doc/ documentation: rfcs, apis, and suchlike
+include/ include files for all code in distribution
+srtp/ secure real-time transport protocol implementation
+tables/ apps for generating tables (useful in porting)
+test/ test drivers
+
+
+Applications
+
+ Several test drivers and a simple and portable srtp application
+ are included in the test/ subdirectory.
+
+ test driver function tested
+ -------------------------------------------------------------
+ kernel_driver crypto kernel (ciphers, auth funcs, rng)
+ srtp_driver srtp in-memory tests (does not use the network)
+ rdbx_driver rdbx (extended replay database)
+ roc_driver extended sequence number functions
+ replay_driver replay database (n.b. not used in libsrtp)
+ cipher_driver ciphers
+ auth_driver hash functions
+
+ The app rtpw is a simple rtp application which reads words from
+ /usr/dict/words and then sends them out one at a time using [s]rtp.
+ Manual srtp keying uses the -k option; automated key management
+ using gdoi will be added later.
+
+usage: rtpw [-d <debug>]* [-k <key> [-a][-e]] [-s | -r] dest_ip dest_port
+or rtpw -l
+
+ Either the -s (sender) or -r (receiver) option must be chosen.
+
+ The values dest_ip, dest_port are the ip address and udp port to
+ which the dictionary will be sent, respectively.
+
+ options:
+
+ -s (s)rtp sender - causes app to send words
+
+ -r (s)rtp receive - causes app to receve words
+
+ -k <key> use srtp master key <key>, where the
+ key is a hexadecimal value (without the
+ leading "0x")
+
+ -e encrypt/decrypt (for data confidentiality)
+ (requires use of -k option as well)
+
+ -a message authentication
+ (requires use of -k option as well)
+
+ -l list debug modules
+
+ -d <debug> turn on debugging for module <debug>
+
+
+In order to get random 30-byte values for use as key/salt pairs , you
+can use the following bash function to format the output of
+/dev/random (where that device is available).
+
+function randhex() {
+ cat /dev/random | od --read-bytes=32 --width=32 -x | awk '{ print $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 $10 $11 $12 $13 $14 $15 $16 }'
+}
+
+
+An example of an SRTP session using two rtpw programs follows:
+
+set k=c1eec3717da76195bb878578790af71c4ee9f859e197a414a78d5abc7451
+
+[sh1]$ test/rtpw -s -k $k -ea 0.0.0.0 9999
+Security services: confidentiality message authentication
+set master key/salt to C1EEC3717DA76195BB878578790AF71C/4EE9F859E197A414A78D5ABC7451
+setting SSRC to 2078917053
+sending word: A
+sending word: a
+sending word: aa
+sending word: aal
+...
+
+[sh2]$ test/rtpw -r -k $k -ea 0.0.0.0 9999
+security services: confidentiality message authentication
+set master key/salt to C1EEC3717DA76195BB878578790AF71C/4EE9F859E197A414A78D5ABC7451
+19 octets received from SSRC 2078917053 word: A
+19 octets received from SSRC 2078917053 word: a
+20 octets received from SSRC 2078917053 word: aa
+21 octets received from SSRC 2078917053 word: aal
+...
+
+Implementation Notes
+
+ * The srtp_protect() function assumes that the buffer holding the
+ rtp packet has enough storage allocated that the authentication
+ tag can be written to the end of that packet. If this assumption
+ is not valid, memory corruption will ensue.
+
+ * Automated tests for the crypto functions are provided through
+ the cipher_type_self_test() and auth_type_self_test() functions.
+ These functions should be used to test each port of this code
+ to a new platform.
+
+ * Replay protection is contained in the crypto engine, and
+ tests for it are provided.
+
+ * This implementation provides calls to initialize, protect, and
+ unprotect RTP packets, and makes as few as possible assumptions
+ about how these functions will be called. For example, the
+ caller is not expected to provide packets in order (though if
+ they're called more than 65k out of sequence, synchronization
+ will be lost).
+
+ * The sequence number in the rtp packet is used as the low 16 bits
+ of the sender's local packet index. Note that RTP will start its
+ sequence number in a random place, and the SRTP layer just jumps
+ forward to that number at its first invocation. An earlier
+ version of this library used initial sequence numbers that are
+ less than 32,768; this trick is no longer required as the
+ rdbx_estimate_index(...) function has been made smarter.
+
+ * The replay window is 128 bits in length, and is hard-coded to this
+ value for now.
+
+