Because SDES carries keying material in clear SDP, RFC 4568 requires confidentiality and integrity protection of the signaling and says SIP deployments should use SIPS or S/MIME.

Checked 2026-09-25

Vendor
IETF
Product
SDES
Subsystem
SRTP keying
Deployment
any
Region
not restricted
Release range
RFC 4568
Checked
2026-09-25

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). SIP 488 and codec negotiation failures: source note sip-488-codec-failures-sdes-needs-secure-signaling. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-488-codec-failures-sdes-needs-secure-signaling

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-sip-488-codec-failures-sdes-needs-secure-signaling,
  title  = {SIP 488 and codec negotiation failures: source note sip-488-codec-failures-sdes-needs-secure-signaling},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-488-codec-failures-sdes-needs-secure-signaling},
  note   = {Source note sip-488-codec-failures-sdes-needs-secure-signaling, checked 2026-09-25}
}

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