On Mar 26, 2008, at 12:16 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>
> - The document incorrectly talks about Digest authentication as the
> only way that a SIP server running TLS can authenticate a client.
> Basic authentication is just as good in such a case, and has many
> properties that make it better than Digest when used under TLS. The
> document should only talk about HTTP authentication, not Digest or
> Basic.

The argument here is that basic was explicitly deprecated in RFC 3261.  
Many people feel that this was a mistake, but that's what we have to  
work with. RFC 3261 even explicitly says (in Section 22):

> Note that due to its weak security, the usage of "Basic"  
> authentication has been deprecated. Servers MUST NOT accept  
> credentials using the "Basic" authorization scheme, and servers also  
> MUST NOT challenge with "Basic". This is a change from RFC 2543.

--
Dean

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