> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Rescorla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 9:11 AM
> To: Dan Wing
> Cc: 'Eric Rescorla'; 'Elwell, John'; 'Hadriel Kaplan'; 
> 'Jonathan Rosenberg'; 'Cullen Jennings'; 'SIP IETF'; 'Uzelac, Adam'
> Subject: Re: [Sip] Thoughts on SIP Identity issues
> 
> At Tue, 5 Aug 2008 08:54:16 -0700,
> Dan Wing wrote:
> > > I haven't spent a long time examining 
> > > draft-kaplan-sip-baiting, but as
> > > I recall, it's not the fault of 4474 failing to sign 
> > > something that
> > > it should have but rather that it's inherent in the 
> > > message-oriented 
> > > nature of SIP.
> > 
> > That distinction is not relevant to the victim.
> 
> No, the distinction is relevant to the people responsible for 
> technically addressing the issue, namely us.

My interpretation of what you are saying is "SIP is message-
oriented, so SIP is vulnerable to baiting as described in
draft-kaplan-sip-baiting, and we can't fix it".  

I don't know if that is what you intended to say; if not, 
please clarify.

> > > With that said, ISTM that this cuts against your argument 
> > > that we should
> > > be signing less of the message, since the failure of RFC 
> 4474 (to the
> > > extent there is one) in this case is that it doesn't protect
> > > *enough* information.
> > 
> > Neither draft-fischer-sip-e2e-sec-media and 
> > draft-wing-sip-identity-media 
> > simply "sign less" -- please do not mis-characterize the 
> > proposals.  Both 
> > proposals require a public key exchange with the remote 
> > party -- which 
> > is far stronger than just using the IP address of the remote party 
> > as is done by RFC4474.
> 
> I don't actually think this characterization of 4474 is that accurate.
> RFC 4474 does not use the IP address for authenticating the media.
> Rather, it authenticates the IP address as well as the rest of the
> SDP 

Which draft-kaplan-sip-baiting shows is insufficient at its intended
purpose.

> and leaves the question of authenticating the media to other
> parts of the system. 

-d




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