Jonathan Rosenberg wrote:
> Well, I'm going to be contrarian here. I'm not convinced that this is
> needed.
> 
> I think certificate based authentication is a great idea. However, I am
> not sure I understand why TLS is not an appropriate solution.
> 

I think it is very simple why TLS is not appropriate. TLS doesn't work
across proxies, and would therefore require the edge proxy to do
authentication.
This is why we conventionally use digest or basic auth over TLS.

Certificate authentication would provide the flexibility of TLS + basic
(no challenge/response) with security better than TLS+digest (no replay).

Of course, SIPSEC is another alternative.

--
Dean


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