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[reSIProcate] Helper::advancedAuthenticateRequest() and old nonces


The code in Helper::advancedAuthenticateRequest() will return Failed if it sees a nonce it doesn't recognize as its own. Unfortunately, this is based on random bits generated at startup, meaning that if a resip-based server is restarted, it will cease to recognize the nonces it has issued, and will start 403ing every time one of them comes in. This is less-than-desirable behavior. Would it be sane to just treat this as an expired nonce, and issue a new challenge? This wouldn't give a malicious endpoint anything it couldn't have gotten already. Getting a 401 vs a 403 tells the endpoint nothing new about the nonce it just used (in fact, it gives _less_ information), and it could have just sent a request with no credentials if it wanted to see what nonce we would generate.

        Any thoughts?

Best regards,
Byron Campen

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