Re: [Sip] Signing P-Asserted-Identity

[Hadriel Kaplan <HKaplan at acmepacket.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Thomas [mailto:mat at cisco.com]
>
> So let me get this, um, straight: what people really want is to be able
> to trust the callerid but that's precisely what we can't provide. Hmm.
> And many of things that you point out about breakage with 4474 is
> not _really_ a fault of 4474 per se, it's that you're hoping essentially
> for the impossible: having a signature survive through a b2bua sausage
> factory.

Right, nothing is really the fault of 4474 - just like nothing about S/MIME or AIB is really their fault either.  Useful at all though, they are not.
I don't disagree though that it's a sausage factory and it'll be a bit of rolling the dice to see if this thing works or has value.


> Sounds all too familiar. I agree with the "blame me" stance, and I'm
> not dissing the idea of 4474 being more flexible in what headers it
> can sign. It's just that this is all very tangled with the possible,
> the impossible and the unknown.

Yup.  It sucketh.


> A short cut! Run away! :)

When the hair is long and the temperature hot, a short-cut is sometimes what you really need. :)

-hadriel
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