[Live-devel] Live555 support for RTSP over TLS

[Ross Finlayson]

> It sounds like Gaurav wants to use Live555 w/ with a TLS socket for encrypted media transmission over a network.
> 
> I could be incorrect, but since I have not seen a network abstraction in place in the library, this would require either a fork of the library or some nasty trickery to link socket calls (like sendto (…), recvfrom (…), etc) to your own implementation that handles the TLS encryption.  Creating a socket that is used with a TLS protocol, then passing to Live555 would break the TLS protocol as Live555 would send data that was not encrypted using TLS function calls (like SSL_read/write(…)).

Yes, I’ve been assuming that the underlying OS makes it possible to create a socket that can be read from/written to using regular socket I/O functions like “recvfrom()”/“sendto()” - i.e., with the underlying OS doing the requisite encryption/decryption automatically.

But if, in fact, that’s not possible, and you require separate ‘user level’ socket I/O functions to read from/write to a TLS socket, then no, this cannot be done with our library.  Sorry.


Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/