On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 08:30 -0500, Scott Lawrence wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 21:26 -0600, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > In asterisk, one of the main suggestions for security is to make your
> > SIP user names different than your extensions.
> 
> A pointless attempt at 'security through obscurity'.  It's trivial to
> get a SIP endpoint to reveal its user name.

Well, it might actually work on Asterisk, since it's a B2BUA and a
caller can't talk directly to a phone.

But in the real world, one does not expect these "secure" SIP user names
to be assigned pseudo-randomly, so they probably aren't hard to guess.

Dale


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