Re: Comment on DERIVE and B2BUAs

Adam Roach <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Elwell, John wrote:
> Also, the B2BUA could handle the SUBSCRIBE by its own, this is,
> > becoming a dialog presence server instead of forwarding the SUBSCRIBE
> > to the UA.
> > B2BUA must handle all this stuff since they are, in fact, the end
> > point, not the UA's behind them.
>
> [JRE] This reduces it to transitive trust, i.e., no better than P-Asserted-Identity. 
>
>   

Yes. Excepting cryptographic approaches: with any man-in-the-middle, 
you're at the mercy of that man-in-the-middle, regardless of whether 
their presence is an attack.

/a
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