[OpenSIPS-Users] Trouble with TLS for encryption of client calls

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu bogdan at voice-system.ro
Thu Apr 22 18:52:10 CEST 2010


Andy,

more or less it is the same (between a user and server) - nevertheless, 
on the client side you need to provide a SSL certificate. What you can 
do is to configure OpenSIPS not to check the certificate: see 
http://www.opensips.org/html/docs/tutorials/tls-1.4.x.html#AEN293

Regards,
Bogdan


Andy Savage wrote:
> Hi Bogdan,
>
> I have looked through this tutorial but from what I could see it only 
> talks about TLS authentication/encryption for other SIP servers (not 
> encryption for clients).
>
> Is it possible to have client authentication (for example a SIP 
> softphone) using TLS without the client having to install a special 
> certificate?
>
> I would like to have this transparent to the users basically so the 
> signalling traffic is encrypted.
>
> Kind regards,
> Andy Savage
>
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> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu 
> <bogdan at voice-system.ro <mailto:bogdan at voice-system.ro>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Andy,
>
>     Have you when through the TLS tutorial -
>     http://www.opensips.org/Resources/DocsTutorials#toc7
>
>     Regards,
>     Bogdan
>
>     Andy Savage wrote:
>     > Hi there,
>     >
>     > I'm having a little bit of trouble understanding how to
>     configure TLS
>     > support for OpenSIPs. The reason for my confusion is that I'm simply
>     > using OpenSIPs as a relay server for SIP traffic between two SIP
>     > clients (lets say for now that the clients are running Bria).
>     >
>     > I am not interested in linking to other SIP servers (or
>     > authenticating/encrypting to them) simply to provide encrypted
>     > signalling traffic between the clients to ensure their privacy.
>     >
>     > How would I go about setting the OpenSIPs config file up for
>     this sort
>     > of scenario? I presume I don't need to generate a user
>     certificate for
>     > this since I don't have any other sip servers I'm linking to?
>     >
>     > Kind regards,
>     > Andy Savage
>     >
>     > --
>     > "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in
>     a way
>     > that will allow a solution"
>     > - Bertrand Russell
>     >
>     > Andy Savage
>     > Cell Phone: +852 936 34341
>     > Skype ID: andy_savage
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