On Oct 9, 2013, at 9:28 PM, Christian Huitema <[email protected]> wrote:

>> For me, the question is: Nobody uses SIP/TLS now. Using SIP/TLS
>> would add some value. How can we make it more likely they do use
>> SIP/TLS?
> 
> Define "nobody," please. Microsoft Lync uses SIP/TLS by default. That must
> be more than "nobody."
> 
> -- Christian Huitema

And it used by the other nobody, Cisco 

I realize it may be less common on service providers private  networks but the 
carriers assume they have adequate protection for the attacks they care about 
just by controlling who has access to the private network. 
 
The only reason I mention this is that some people do read our stuff, read our 
security sections, and try to make a rational decision. The rational decisions 
for many places that Cisco and Microsoft PBX's deploy is to turn on TLS. The 
rational decision after reading the security sections we wrote for the service 
provider private networks may actually be to not use TLS. (note I'm not arguing 
private networks are private, or that firewalls work, or anything like that - 
I'm say that people make have thought about the security and decided they had 
adequate protection against the attacks they cared about - which to be clear 
were probably toll fraud and not confidentiality of the media )

A threat models change, deployments do to. I'm pretty confident more than a few 
business are rethinking the threat model of how much nations state grade 
attackers might be sharing data with their competitors, or do that in the 
future, and what they might do about that. 





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