July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
6h 49m
English
SRTP in its oldest, simplest and most deployed implementation encrypts the (UDP) audio stream using a key that was exchanged via SIP(S), in the SDP body of the SIP packet.
This method, called SDES (SDP Security Descriptions), can be considered secure under two conditions:
Because SIP(S) packets must be interpreted by proxies, the organizations that own or manage each single proxy between caller and callee know the key and can decrypt the audio. Also, someone can succeed in inserting him or herself into the proxy chain, and acting as a man-in-the-middle (mitm), pretending ...
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