Non Repudiation for SIP Protocol; SIP Sign

Author

Sawda, Samer El ; El Sawda, R. ; Urien, Pascal ; Hajjeh, Ibrahim

Author_Institution

Univ. Paris VI, Paris

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

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 (Datagram TLS defined in RFC 4347) to provide an adequate level of protection against attacks. However, missing from these protocols is a way to perform non-repudiation service. In this paper we propose to modify some header fields in the SIP messages in order to allow them to perform non-repudiation service over TLS. This modification provides the User Agents (UAs) the ability to sign their SIP messages using certificates such as X.509.

Keywords

message authentication; signalling protocols; Datagram TLS; Internet telephone calls; SIP messages; multimedia conferences; multimedia distribution; nonrepudiation service; security mechanism; session initiation protocol; user agents; Authentication; Data security; ISDN; Internet telephony; Network servers; Protection; Protocols; Streaming media; Web and internet services; Web server; Non Repudiation; PKCS7; SIP Security; Session Initiation Protocol; Signature; X509; component;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, 2008. ICTTA 2008. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Damascus

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1751-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1752-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTTA.2008.4530177

Filename

4530177