Re: News article on CA impersonation attack

Johansson Olle E <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2 jan 2009 kl. 16.34 skrev Dale Worley:

> On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 21:30 +0100, Johansson Olle E wrote:
>> Also: How can we move away from MD5 digest auth?
>
> The authentication headers all allow the algorithm to be specified, so
> we can convert to SHA1 fairly straightforwardly.  But the current  
> attack
> benefits from the fact that one can spend hours synthesizing a
> certificate.  I doubt one could attack a SIP session setup fast enough
> to be useful with reasonably-priced hardware.  But that will come with
> time...

We need some implementation guidelines for doing this. How do we
respond to an MD5 auth request we don't accept?

If for some strange reason, I want to support both old MD5 UA's and
new SHAx UA's - how do I indicate both?

We propably need some test code and test scenarios here.

/O
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