8.1. Re-keying

8.1. Re-keying

The recommended way for a particular key management system to provide re-key within SRTP is by associating a master key in a crypto context with an MKI.

This provides for easy master key retrieval (see Scenarios in Section 11), but has the disadvantage of adding extra bits to each packet. As noted in Section 7.5, some wireless links do not cater for added bits, therefore SRTP also defines a more economic way of triggering re-keying, via use of <From, To>, which works in some specific, simple scenarios (see Section 8.1.1).

SRTP senders SHALL count the amount of SRTP and SRTCP traffic being used for a master key and invoke key management to re-key if needed (Section 9.2). These interactions are defined by the key management interface to SRTP and are not defined by this protocol specification.