Re: draft-state-sip-relay-attack-00

Raphael Coeffic <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dan Wing wrote:
>> Dan Wing wrote:
>>     
>>> Thanks for publishing that attack.  It has similarities 
>>> with the attack described by Hadriel in
>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kaplan-sip-baiting-attack.
>>>       
>> Yes, it also modifies part of the request which are not signed by the 
>> authentication/signature algorithm. I should mention this draft in a 
>> later version.
>>
>> However, the goal is not the same. Hadriel's draft is focused on 
>> impersonation, whereby the other draft is focused on breaking the 
>> authentication done at the proxy.
>>     
>
> By breaking the authentication the attacker can impersonate
> another user.  For example, that proxy might create an RFC4474 
> signature.
>
>   
Another interresting application indeed! As it looks like, a lot of 
people on the list have very good ideas that we will have to document in 
version 01 (if it is the will of the WG, of course!).

Regards
Raphael.
>> The second difference is that it works right now with any 
>> publicly reachable SIP provider.
>>     
>
> Yes, I agree that makes it much more interesting.
>
> -d
>
>   

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