[Asterisk-Security] Opportunistic encryption

Duane duane at e164.org
Sun Jul 23 22:34:04 MST 2006


Enzo Michelangeli wrote:

> Thanks. But how is a common session key established in this case? If it 
> is randomly generated and transmitted in cleartext in the SDP content, 
> as it appears from http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=5413 (use of 
> "a=crypto .... inline:....), then the method only makes sense with 
> SIP-over-TLS.

Or use MIKEY (which is what sipura uses?) for key exchange...

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3830.html

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