Subject: RE: [Sip] Re: TLS meaning (was Re: [Sipping] WGLC: draft-ietf-sipping-dialogusage-03.txt)

From: "Samir Srivastava" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:30:56 -0500

> 
> Actually, HTTPS means you have TLS all the way to the far end, with no

> "proxy MITM" weakness. SIPS doesn't mean that.
> 
> And IMAPS and POPS both mean SSL, not TLS, in common practice.
> 
> But SMTP, which uses a hop-by-hop relayance model much more similar to

> SIP than HTTP is, doesn't have an SMPTS to insist on hop-by-hop 
> security, because that would just be silly for email (as it is silly 
> for SIP, from a security perspective).
> 
 Great Example. In HTTP there is very thin line between the resource and
routing. So we don't see these problems. Purists are needed to make
diamonds .....
 
Thx
Samir

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