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PROPOSED STANDARD

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RFC 4474

Updated by:

RFC 8946

Authors:

J. Peterson
C. Jennings
E. Rescorla
C. Wendt

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IETF

Source:

stir (art)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8224

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Abstract

The baseline security mechanisms in the Session Initiation Protocol(SIP) are inadequate for cryptographically assuring the identity ofthe end users that originate SIP requests, especially in aninterdomain context. This document defines a mechanism for securelyidentifying originators of SIP requests. It does so by defining aSIP header field for conveying a signature used for validating theidentity and for conveying a reference to the credentials of thesigner.

This document obsoletes RFC 4474.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.