Re: Implementing SHA digest auth (new topic)

"Nils Ohlmeier" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 17:45 +0100, Johansson Olle E wrote:
>> The UA could also, as you point out, send all headers at once to make it
>> a quicker round-trip, but doing it that way would also expose the
>> weaker MD5 hash which we want to avoid.
>
> We actually haven't resolved the question whether using MD5 *exposes*
> your key.  As far as I can tell, what's been shown is that *trusting* an
> MD5 is not a good idea.  But I'm not a crypto expert.

I'm not a crypto expert either but I think it is a good idea to be
prepared to replace MD5 whenever we will have to do it. And as such a
replacement takes time until it reaches the end user it would be better to
start early.

Just my 2 cents
  Nils

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