RFC 8760: The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Digest Access Authentication Scheme
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This document updates RFC 3261 by modifying the Digest Access Authentication scheme used by the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to add support for more secure digest algorithms, e.g., SHA-256 and SHA-512/256, to replace the obsolete MD5 algorithm.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC8760
- Published
- March 2020
- Authors
- R. Shekh-Yusef
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- art
- Pages
- 9
- Also known as
- —
- Updates:
- RFC 3261
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