Multimedia Internet KEYing
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Multimedia Internet KEYing (MIKEY) is a key management protocol that is intended for use with real-time applications. It can specifically be used to set up encryption keys for multimedia sessions that are secured using SRTP, the security protocol commonly used for securing real-time communications such as VoIP.
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Purpose of MIKEY
- Using MIKEY in practice
- Use cases
- Key transport and exchange methods
- MIKEY messages
- MIKEY message content
- See also
- References
Multimedia Internet KEYing (MIKEY) is a key management protocol that is intended for use with real-time applications. It can specifically be used to set up encryption keys for multimedia sessions that are secured using SRTP, the security protocol commonly used for securing real-time communications such as VoIP.
MIKEY was first defined in . Additional MIKEY modes have been defined in , , , and .
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