Subject: Re: [Sip] sip tcp connection

From: Cullen Jennings <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 18:51:31 -0700

On Apr 25, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:

> I was also surprised and confused as to why TCP-reuse had been  
> pulled out of
> connect-reuse.
>
> I am not clear why any argument which includes "a middle-man can  
> hijack it"
> should mean a mechanism cannot be allowed in a draft. (unless the
> mechanism's purpose is to be a security mechanism, which this one  
> isn't)

The problem was that an "off path attacker with no credentials" could  
hijack it.

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