Secure authentication and key establishment in the SIP architecture

Author

Malina, Lukas ; Zukal, Martin

Author_Institution

Brno Univ. of Technol., Brno, Czech Republic

fYear

2011

Firstpage

14

Lastpage

18

Abstract

This article deals with security features of SIP and focuses on advanced authentication and key establishment methods. These methods are described and a proposal of comprehensive security for the SIP architecture is presented in this article. The solution provides strong secure authentication of SIP users and protects against various attacks occurring in the SIP architecture. Furthermore, our proposal is implemented and tested. The experimental results from our proof of concept implementation are presented at the end of the text. Moreover, the conventional HTTP Digest method is also implemented and its performance is compared with methods in the proposal.

Keywords

authorisation; hypermedia; signalling protocols; transport protocols; SIP architecture; comprehensive security; conventional HTTP digest method; key establishment; secure authentication; security features; session initiation protocol; Authentication; Multimedia communication; Proposals; Protocols; Registers; Servers; SIP; authentication; key establishment; multimedia; security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP), 2011 34th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1410-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TSP.2011.6043786

Filename

6043786