On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:55:43AM +0300, Aki Niemi wrote:
> su, 2008-06-08 kello 22:08 +0200, ext cco kirjoitti:
> > now, the call flows given as an example would function when the
> > challenge (nonce) does not explicitly depend on the user which is
> > actually trying to register itself, being generated
> > (periodically) by the sip proxy itself; that is they are o.k. for an
> > HTTP digest MD5 auth. as spec. in rfc 3261/rfc 2617. but they do NOT seem 
> > to 
> > function in the real world when AKA is used, because:
> > 
> > 1. the challenge is user specific.
> > 2. the "network" authenticates itself to the UE as well in case of AKA.
> 
> In an environment with plain RFC3310, an extra round trip would be
> required. The main user of this spec, namely 3GPP fixes this by

cristian: hi. aki, thanks a lot for the reply. I still have some
questions though. lets take it one step at a time. "an extra round trip
would be required" means that the call flow given as an example in the
rfc lacks that round trip, right? why?

> requiring the presence of the Authorization field in the initial
> REGISTER. 

cristian: why not specifying this in the rfc as well?

now, as I see it, the problem is that a lot of ue sip stacks implementors 
would take the rfc word for word and implement their software exactly 
how it is specified in the rfc. and in the end, everyone will wonder 
why the call flow in rfc3310 does not work or when it works it looks 
quite differently...

bye now!
cristian
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