RSA is used by some of the governments and top companies in the world as
a means of security.

if you are using Asterisk on the Astlinux box, then you should have the
IDS and adaptive ban enabled to stop brute force SIP registrations.

Also, use security through obscurity, and change the SIP control port to
something else other than 5060.

~Benjamin


On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 13:46 -0400, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
> If that's your concern then the alternate methods of authentication
> offered by IAX should be adequate.
> 
> On Saturday, March 15, 2014, Michael Knill
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>         Thanks Kristian
>         
>         
>         Is it just the encryption that is not secure? If I am not
>         looking at encrypting media but using RSA for authentication,
>         is this also insecure?
>         My concern is not call eavesdropping but instead unauthorised
>         use through SIP brute force registration.
>         
>         
>         I would like to use TLS but my understanding is that you
>         currently cannot enforce client certificate verification
>         (tlsverifyclient=yes). Is this still the case? Do any clients
>         even support this?
>         
>         
>         https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-17856
>         
>         
>         The only option I have left is VPN really.
>         
>         Regards
>         Michael Knill
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         On 16/03/2014, at 3:41 AM, Kristian Kielhofner
>         <[email protected]> wrote:
>         
>         > IAX encryption should not be trusted for anything deemed
>         > important.
>         > 
>         > 
>         > Even basic reviews have uncovered several security issues
>         > and it hasn't been well studied beyond that.
>         > 
>         > 
>         > If it must be secure use SIP over strong TLS with good keys,
>         > cipher suites, etc or use a VPN.
>         > 
>         > On Saturday, March 15, 2014, Benjamin L. Naber
>         > <[email protected]> wrote:
>         >         Not yet.
>         >         
>         >         I called the folks who make Zoiper to inquire when a
>         >         feature like that
>         >         would be available, and it was stated they are
>         >         working on it.
>         >         
>         >         Not only does IAX2 support RSA authentication, it
>         >         also supports stream
>         >         encryption.
>         >         
>         >         
>         >         
>         >         On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 16:08 +1100, Michael Knill
>         >         wrote:
>         >         > Hi group
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         > I have been looking at secure remote telephony
>         >         access solutions for
>         >         > Astlinux.
>         >         > I found that IAX supports RSA authentication which
>         >         looks great but I
>         >         > cant seem to find any clients which support it.
>         >         Does anyone know if
>         >         > there is one?
>         >         > Is this only used for trunking between Asterisk
>         >         systems?
>         >         >
>         >         > Regards
>         >         > Michael Knill
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         >
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