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AMWA BCP-003-01 Secure Communication in NMOS Systems

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What does it do?

  • Documents best practice for using secure transport for NMOS API communications.

Why does it matter?

  • A secure control plane is essential.
  • Need to ensure encryption is sufficient.
  • These recommendations allow interoperability using widely adopted open technologies.

How does it work?

  • Recommends using TLS 1.2 or better for HTTP and WebSocket messages.
  • Recommends cipher suites.

Getting started

There is more information about the NMOS Specifications and their GitHub repos at https://specs.amwa.tv/nmos.