A lightweight scheme for securely and reliably locating SIP users

Author

Kong, Lei ; Balasubramaniyan, Vijay Arvind ; Ahamad, Mustaque

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2006

fDate

38810

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

17

Abstract

Voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) is a fast growing technology believed to be the future replacement for traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN) networks. VOIP offers many benefits over PSTW, but there are still lots of issues when it comes to service reliability and security. One of the problems faced is how to locate communicating parties on the Internet in a secure and reliable manner. The security mechanisms included in RFC 3261 session initiation protocol (SIP) are either weak or expensive to deploy. In this paper, we propose a light weight scheme that can protect the integrity of SIP contact addresses. This scheme also achieves high availability of SIP services through replication. End user public key distributed in this scheme can also be used for end-to-end user authentication and media session key exchange.

Keywords

Internet telephony; computer network reliability; protocols; public key cryptography; telecommunication security; PSTW; RFC 3261; SIP; VOIP; end-to-end user authentication; light weight scheme; media session key exchange; public key distribution; security; service reliability; session initiation protocol; voice over Internet protocol; Authentication; Computer crime; Computer networks; Cryptography; Educational institutions; Internet telephony; Protection; Protocols; Public key; Telecommunication network reliability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VoIP Management and Security, 2006. 1st IEEE Workshop on

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0144-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VOIPMS.2006.1638117

Filename

1638117