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Security in IP telephony ( VoIP) David Andersson Erik Martinsson

Security in IP telephony ( VoIP) David Andersson Erik Martinsson. Background. VoIP is becoming very popular - money to be saved! - new features Not trivial to implement (QoS, availability, security) Services released with focus only on functionality. Goals. Get an overview of VoIP

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Security in IP telephony ( VoIP) David Andersson Erik Martinsson

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  1. Security in IP telephony (VoIP)David AnderssonErik Martinsson

  2. Background • VoIP is becoming very popular- money to be saved!- new features • Not trivial to implement (QoS, availability, security) • Services released with focus only on functionality

  3. Goals • Get an overview of VoIP • Find out about the security threats • Relevance to language-based security? • Study some attacks against VoIP

  4. What we have done • Learned about VoIP technology- common network setups- protocols • Evaluation of VoIP threats • Studying and testing some attacks • Skype

  5. A Network Setup

  6. Protocols • SIP and RTP most common • Both open and defined by IETF • RTP flexible media transfer protocol • SIP is an initialization protocol • SIP uses text based messages • SIP reuses many existing standards

  7. Security: VoIP vs POTS • Very different networks trying to achieve the same goals • POTS is physically difficult to attack • VoIP has more security features but is open for attacks over the entire world through the Internet

  8. Security: Threats • VOIPSA (VoIP Security Alliance) has made an extensive list of threats • A mixture of threats in POTS and in IP-networks

  9. Security: Language-Based? • VoIP is a complex system • Secure networking has well known solutions, but… • …end-devices are hard to control • The key to securing VoIP is to secure the clients!

  10. Attacks • SIP-attacks:- Bombing- Cancel/Bye- Call hijacking • RTP eavesdropping

  11. Attacks: SIP • Possible to generate SIP packets with i.e. SiVus (The VoIP Vulnerability Scanner) • Attacks must be done within timeframe of a call or sometimes during the initial handshake • Software for real-time attack is needed

  12. Attacks: sniffing RTP • Ethereal can analyze RTP and find media streams • Open codecs are easily decoded • We could playback entire conversations!

  13. Skype • Most popular VoIP software today • Proprietary protocol • Information sent without using the software • Secure channel (VoIP, IM, File transfer) • Impossible to distinguish betweem VoIP, IM or File transfers

  14. Evaluation • VoIP is usually not very secure!! • Use with caution until otherwise is proved • Our goals reached

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