Re: [sipcore] #11: H-I does not provide a "stronger security solution for SIP"

Mary Barnes <mary.ietf.barnes@gmail.com> Mon, 30 August 2010 22:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [sipcore] #11: H-I does not provide a "stronger security solution for SIP"
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Yeah - another 4244 leftover when there was the misguided idea that we
could actually use this to help with the m2m and m2e SIP security
issues.  I'll remove.

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:39 PM, sipcore issue tracker
<trac@tools.ietf.org> wrote:
> #11: H-I does not provide a "stronger security solution for SIP"
> ------------------------------------+---------------------------------------
>  Reporter:  hkaplan@…               |       Owner:
>     Type:  defect                  |      Status:  new
>  Priority:  minor                   |   Milestone:  milestone1
> Component:  rfc4244bis              |     Version:  2.0
>  Severity:  In WG Last Call         |    Keywords:
> ------------------------------------+---------------------------------------
>  Section 3 has the following bullet point:
>       o  A stronger security solution for SIP.  A side effect is that each
>       proxy that captures the "request history" information in a secure
>       manner provides an additional means (without requiring signed
>       keys) for the original requestor to be assured that the request
>       was properly retargeted.
>
>  That should be removed, since it's not true.
>
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> Ticket URL: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/sipcore/trac/ticket/11>
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