On 05/05/2011 08:21 AM, Olle E. Johansson wrote:

Because they HAVE TO. In the 401/407 reply, there's a challenge
(nonce) which is an important part of the MD5 Digest Auth scheme.

I meant more to contrast with how some UACs will attempt to re-cycle old Authorization credentials in re-registrations and so on.

The password is NOT encrypted. It's is used as the basis of a
textstring you calculate a hash from. That's very different :-)

I know.  I was trying to keep it simple for the OP.

I would say it may call for SIP with TLS client authentication -
regardless if you need encryption or not...

On this point of view we may differ.

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