A trust communication with SIP protocol

Samer El Sawda, Pascal Urien, Rami El Sawda

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Abstract

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an application-layer signaling and control protocol for creating, modifying and terminating sessions including Internet telephone calls, multimedia distribution and multimedia conferences. Flexible, extensible and open, SIP has a complete security mechanism that allows security of both media and signaling. SIP RFC recommends the use of TLS or DTLS to provide an adequate level of protection against attacks. However, missing from these protocols is a way to perform non-repudiation service when used in SIP networks to provide a high level of trust between User Agents. In this paper we propose to modify and sign some header fields in the SIP request messages in order to achieve nonrepudiation service over TLS/DTLS. To facilitate the implementation, the portability and the test of our proposal, called SIP SIGN, the new messages will be created and treated by a redirect server named "Proxy Signatory" setting between the User Agents and their local proxy servers. This "Proxy Signatory" provides the caller the ability to sign its SIP messages using certificates such as X.509 and the callee to verify and validate the signature and the caller identity.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2010 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2010
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Print)9781424477159
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2010
Event2010 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2010 - Hammamet, Tunisia
Duration: 16 May 201019 May 2010

Publication series

Name2010 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2010

Conference

Conference2010 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2010
Country/TerritoryTunisia
CityHammamet
Period16/05/1019/05/10

Keywords

  • Non repudiation
  • PKCS #7
  • SIP security
  • SIPS
  • Session initiation protocol
  • X509

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