Re: Another possible limitation of DERIVE

Dean Willis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Nov 21, 2008, at 10:04 AM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf  
>> Of Dean
>> Willis
>> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 10:56 AM
>>
>> I crate a CA cert claiming to be for "elwell.org" and use it to  
>> sign a
>> cert for "sip.elwell.org".
>> I then generate INVITE requests for everybody on the SIP mailing  
>> list,
>> with RFC 4474 Identity headers signed by "sip.elwell.org" and send
>> them off UDP. Not from a real SIP UP, but from a simple harassment
>> program.
>>
>> How do existing identity mechanisms protect against this?
>
> The answer to that is simple: will you pay for the calls?
>

Pay? I have yet to pay (beyond the basic transport cost) for a SIP  
call using a domain-style address.

--
Dean
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