At 05:43 PM 7/25/2002, Shan Lu wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jiri Kuthan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
>>Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 10:33 AM
>>To: Shan Lu; 'James Undery'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: RE: [Sip] Authentication and ACK
>>
>>
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>>If you are interested in security, you better go for secure transport.
>>I do not see any great security benefit in copy'n'paste of INVITE's
>>credentials.
>>
>
>Are you saying the proxy should just proxy along any ACK?

Yes.


>>Note that none of these issues is related to whether a server
>>is stateful or stateless. 
>>
>
>Why can't a stateful proxy correlate ACK with INVITE and find out
>whether the INVITE is being challenged and handle ACK accordingly?

Remembering whether an INVITE was authenticated properly does not
gain you knowledge that ACK is coming from the same person -- the ACK
is a brand-new message which might have been sent by anyone else in
posession of IP access.

-Jiri

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