Title :
A transport-level proxy for secure multimedia streams
Author :
Fung, King P. ; Chang, Rocky K C
Author_Institution :
Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., China
Abstract :
To provide a secure traversal service, firewalls need more than static packet filtering and application-level proxies. SOCKS (Secure sOCKets) is an application-independent transport-level proxy that offers user-level authentification and data encryption. An extended SOCKS UDP (user datagram protocol) binding model with appropriate socket calls is proposed to provide complete support for UDP-based multimedia streaming applications
Keywords :
authorisation; computer networks; multimedia communication; telecommunication security; transport protocols; SOCKS; Secure Sockets; UDP-based multimedia streaming applications; application-independent transport-level proxy; application-level proxies; binding model; data encryption; firewalls; packet filtering; secure multimedia streams; secure traversal service; socket calls; user datagram protocol; user-level authentification; Application software; Computer security; Delay effects; Filtering; Internet; Multimedia computing; Network servers; Streaming media; Telecommunication traffic; Transport protocols;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4236.895017
