RFC 8760 keeps MD5 in SIP digest only for backward compatibility and states its use is NOT RECOMMENDED.
Checked 2026-10-02
- Vendor
- not restricted
- Product
- not restricted
- Subsystem
- digest authentication
- Deployment
- any
- Region
- not restricted
- Release range
- RFC 8760 (March 2020) onward
- Checked
- 2026-10-02
Sources
- RFC 8760: The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Digest Access Authentication Scheme — RFC Editor / IETF · tier 1 standards and regulators · Section 3; Section 1
Cite this note
APA
WarmTransfer. (2026, October 2). SIP trunk authentication: registration and static IP and mutual TLS: source note sip-trunk-authentication-models-rfc8760-md5-not-recommended. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-trunk-authentication-models-rfc8760-md5-not-recommended
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-sip-trunk-authentication-models-rfc8760-md5-not-recommended,
title = {SIP trunk authentication: registration and static IP and mutual TLS: source note sip-trunk-authentication-models-rfc8760-md5-not-recommended},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-trunk-authentication-models-rfc8760-md5-not-recommended},
note = {Source note sip-trunk-authentication-models-rfc8760-md5-not-recommended, checked 2026-10-02}
}