# WebRTC publishing authentication

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/webrtc-publishing-authentication/93358>\
**Category:** Wowza Video (Formerly Streaming Cloud)\
**Tags:** webrtc\
**Created:** [May 29, 2021, 7:50am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/webrtc-publishing-authentication/93358 "2021-05-29T07:50:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Sopheak\_Sek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sopheak\_Sek](https://community.wowza.com/u/Sopheak_Sek)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 7:50am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/webrtc-publishing-authentication/93358/1 "2021-05-29T07:50:48Z")

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I’ve been playing around with Wowza streaming cloud and stream publishing via WebRTC. I see that the player also use the same source connection information that is used for publishing streams. Is there any solution to stop people with the information from publishing streams.

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**Author:** ![Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/rose_power-wowza_com/32/431_2.png) [@Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rose_Power-Wowza_Com)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 5:24pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/webrtc-publishing-authentication/93358/2 "2021-05-30T17:24:32Z")

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_ **Wowza Cloud cannot:** _

- Provide authenticated WebRTC publisher connection  
  

Your options would be to use Streaming Engine instead for your WebRTC workflow where you’d have more security control for both publishing and playback:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/control-access-to-webrtc-publishing-and-playback#enhance-webrtc-publishing-and-playback-security-with-a-custom-http-provider](https://www.wowza.com/docs/control-access-to-webrtc-publishing-and-playback#enhance-webrtc-publishing-and-playback-security-with-a-custom-http-provider)

  

As far as Cloud, we don’t yet offer that level of security for WebRTC publishing, just encryption at playback.

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**Author:** ![Sopheak\_Sek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sopheak\_Sek](https://community.wowza.com/u/Sopheak_Sek)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 5:10am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/webrtc-publishing-authentication/93358/3 "2021-05-31T05:10:27Z")

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It is fine with WebRTC publishing, but I also want to use WebRTC playback as well (bad delay with HLS playback) without exposing the publishing info to the public.

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**Author:** ![Sopheak\_Sek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sopheak\_Sek](https://community.wowza.com/u/Sopheak_Sek)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 5:17am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/webrtc-publishing-authentication/93358/4 "2021-05-31T05:17:12Z")

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or at least with some form of security for webrtc playback