[SR-Users] Using the auth_ephemeral module

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

On 17/01/2017 14:58, Carsten Bock wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know, who's responsible for approving bigger messages - if
> present, please approve my message for completeness of this thread...
> :-)

Done!

Cheers,
Daniel

>
> You are right - except that it doesn't really decrypt the secret, it
> only creates a hash identical to the one create by the Webservice and
> compares the hash.
>
> Thanks,
> Carsten
>
> 2017-01-17 14:38 GMT+01:00 Steve Davies
> <steve-lists-srusers at connection-telecom.com>:
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> On 17 January 2017 at 14:15, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I guess you can use other modules such as http_client to interact with the
>>> web service. The jansson module can be used to parse the result.
>>>
>>> Also, it should be possible to do it without interacting with the web
>>> service, because you can compute the password using the shared secret key.
>>> So, in this case, Kamailio doesn't need to interact with the web service.
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks for that, and to Carsten who also sent explanation.
>>
>> It seems like all that documentation about the web service is indeed a
>> red-herring since the module is neither a client nor a provider of such a
>> service.  There is no obligation to implement such a service as documented -
>> since in any event auth_ephemeral neither implements nor consumes this web
>> service.
>>
>> All auth_ephemeral does it to authenticate clients using a secret (password)
>> that is encrypted using a shared key.  auth_ephemeral I guess decrypts the
>> secret which is structured so that auth_ephemeral can tell that it is legit
>> and unexpired.
>>
>> Do I have this right?
>>
>> Gotta say that the docs really don't make this clear.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
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