January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
8h 6m
English
Here is the INVITE authentication sequence of an ordinary call. The proxy server always answers the first INVITE message with a reply containing the 407 Proxy Authentication Required message. This message has the Authorization header field, which contains information about the Digest authentication, such as realm and nonce (nonce is a number used once in the authentication process and it prevents replay attacks). Once received by UAC, this message is replied with a new INVITE. Now, the Authorize header field contains the Digest calculated using the username, password, realm, and nonce with the MD5 algorithm. If a match exists between the Digest informed in the request and the one calculated in the server using ...
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