Sorry yes that makes sense.I thought I didn't know what I was talking about 
(again)!

Regards
Michael Knill




On 13/11/2012, at 3:39 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:

> Michael,
> 
> Yes, in Bria, the Verify TLS Cert option only verifies the self-signed server 
> CA cert.  You email the server CA cert to the iOS device and install it in 
> the System Profiles (simple), then with Verify TLS Cert enabled you will be 
> certain you are connecting to your asterisk server, not a hijacked DNS with 
> the intention to capture your SIP peer secret.  Not likely, but possible in 
> theory.
> 
> The purpose of client certificates is for Asterisk to essentially do the 
> above, but in reverse, to verify that it is really your iOS device not a 
> drive-by snooper.  Unfortunately it seems this is not a commonly supported 
> feature in mobile SIP clients, not to mention Asterisk.
> 
> So it seems, at this time, SIP-TLS client certificate authentication is not 
> something we can utilize.
> 
> Lonnie
> 
> 
> On Nov 12, 2012, at 10:05 PM, Michael Knill wrote:
> 
>> The Bria 3 for iPhone has an option under Settings > Advanced to Verify TLS 
>> Cert. Also Groundwire came up and asked me whether I wanted to add an 
>> exception for the non verified Asterisk certificate. Surely these will work 
>> when certificate checking is enforced.
>> 
>> Interestingly Counterpath uses reSIProcate in the Bria SIP stack. Surely it 
>> would be compatible!
>> 
>> http://www.counterpath.com/architecture.html
>> 
>> Regards
>> Michael Knill
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 13/11/2012, at 9:21 AM, David Kerr wrote:
>> 
>>> I can see no evidence of the Acrobits softphone using client certificates.  
>>> Once I set up the Asterisk side it "just worked".  Not being a security guy 
>>> I don't know all the implications.
>>> 
>>> I have not used Bria iOS app, though I have used the free version of their 
>>> desktop app, X-lite.  I have spent a few bucks on iOS SIP clients over the 
>>> years and progressed to Acrobits earlier this summer... and it works so 
>>> well that I've not found the need to try anything else.  I do wish I had 
>>> bought their Groundwire product though... it has more features than the 
>>> base softphone.  Unfortunately there is no upgrade path -- a consequence of 
>>> needing to use the iTunes store as their distribution channel I think.  I 
>>> would pay $3 to upgrade, but not sure I want to pay $10 having already 
>>> spent $7 on the base softphone.
>>> 
>>> David
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> David,
>>> 
>>> Just curious, does your "Acrobits Softphone" iOS app support client 
>>> certificates ?  What do you like over Bria (iOS) ?
>>> 
>>> Lonnie
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Nov 12, 2012, at 1:35 PM, David Kerr wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I agree that it is useful to have this support added to the web interface. 
>>>>  Thanks Lonnie.
>>>> 
>>>> David
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck 
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi Michael,
>>>> 
>>>> It is not that Asterisk fails to handle SIP TLS certificates correctly, it 
>>>> is just not completely implemented.
>>>> 
>>>> Though this may be somewhat moot if many of the SIP clients don't support 
>>>> client certs anyway.  I'm using Bria (iOS) and unless it is hidden, I 
>>>> don't see client cert support.
>>>> 
>>>> I still think this is worth adding to the web interface, client 
>>>> certificate generation can be easily added down the road if needed, 
>>>> whatever the server/proxy is.
>>>> 
>>>> Lonnie
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Nov 12, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Michael Keuter wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> So IMHO it is not very efficient to waste effort on the TLS certificate 
>>>>> feature in Astlinux if Asterisk fails to handle it correct ATM.
>>>>> Would it instead be interesting to think about a SIP proxy like e.g Repro?
>>>>> (The additional requierements are not that big).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>> 
>>>>> Michael
>>>>> 
>>>>> Am 12.11.2012 um 19:34 schrieb Lonnie Abelbeck 
>>>>> <[email protected]>:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Clarification, regarding my earlier comment:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Edit: Ahhh, before sending this email, I confirmed that if the CA 
>>>>>>> CommonName is set to pbx2.priv.abelbeck.com (not the IP 10.10.50.61) 
>>>>>>> and then try to connect via 10.10.50.61 the TLS fails.  I suppose that 
>>>>>>> is a hurdle by setting the CommonName to a DNS name rather than an IP 
>>>>>>> address.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The 'Server Certificate' (not CA as stated) CommonName or subjectAltName 
>>>>>> validity check is implemented on the client not the server (asterisk), 
>>>>>> so this feature does not add a hurdle for the evil doers.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Lonnie
>>>>>> 
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