I don't see any specific application where an UA can verify other UA's
credential.
Generally Registrar or B2BUA or Proxy can have stored credential for
their UA to verify those UA's credential.


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George
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 6:51 AM
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Subject: [Sip-implementors] User-to-User Authentication


Hi Guys,

i have a doubt about User-to-User Authentication.

if an UAS wants to challenge any request from peer, i belive it can send
a 
401 Unauthorized response with a WWW-Authenticate header.
once UAC had add its credentials in the next request, how do a UAS 
verifies it.

tipically, UAC generates credentials with its username and password
which 
is known only for UAC and Registrar/Proxy.
but how do a UAS, being an UA verify whether the credentials supplied
are 
correct.

        INVITE
UAC --------------------> UAS

        401 Unauthorized (with WWW-Authenticate header)
UAC <--------------------UAS

        INVITE (with credentials in Authorization header)
UAC -----------------------> UAS
         Now, how do UAS verifies the credentials and authenticate 
request.

i belive, the username and password cannot be shared with the other UAs.

can anybody throw some light on this?? Is anything wrong in my 
understanding?
Is there any standards (rfc) which talk about User-to-User
Authentication 
?

i would appreciate any information you can provide on this issue.

Thanks
Anish
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