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Mastering FreeSWITCH
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Mastering FreeSWITCH

by Anthony Minessale II, Giovanni Maruzzelli
July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
6h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Encrypting SIP with TLS (SIPS)

TLS, as SSL, depends on certificates issued by a Certification Authority that guarantee the identity of the certificate bearer. You can buy a TLS certificate from the same CAs that sell Web HTTPS certificates. You can then use that same certificate with WebSockets, WebRTC and mod_verto too (and for the HTTPS website with the same name as your SIP registrar, for example, https://pbx.freeswitch.org).

Also, you can use free and valid certificates from https://letsencrypt.org/, (see the automatic script in FreeSWITCH Confluence about verto_communicator demo installation on Debian 8).

The tool you use to generate the various certificates involved is (aptly named) gentls_cert:

/usr/local/freeswitch/bin/gentls_cert command ...
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ISBN: 9781784398880