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bsguru
bsguru

Reputation: 472

Secure communication between Chrome extension and mobile over local network

I am developing a mobile application and a corresponding chrome extension and planning to use UDP for data communication between mobile and extension using the udp API provided in chrome

It seems there is no provision to use DTLS in chrome APIs , so I a wondering how to secure the communication.

If I decide TCP over UDP I think TLS can be used for security as per the documentation

The mobile app and extension communicate only over local network.

Thanks in advance for suggestions.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 422

Answers (1)

Xan
Xan

Reputation: 77531

To begin with: Extensions cannot use sockets APIs. Just so that doesn't come as a shock later. Only Apps have access to that.

That said, the sockets API provide you access to raw sockets. That means you can implement your own security on top of it. The API method you quote is there for convenience, but it can be reimplemented.

Upvotes: 1

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