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George Joseph d7e262226f Stir/Shaken Refactor
Why do we need a refactor?

The original stir/shaken implementation was started over 3 years ago
when little was understood about practical implementation.  The
result was an implementation that wouldn't actually interoperate
with any other stir-shaken implementations.

There were also a number of stir-shaken features and RFC
requirements that were never implemented such as TNAuthList
certificate validation, sending Reason headers in SIP responses
when verification failed but we wished to continue the call, and
the ability to send Media Key(mky) grants in the Identity header
when the call involved DTLS.

Finally, there were some performance concerns around outgoing
calls and selection of the correct certificate and private key.
The configuration was keyed by an arbitrary name which meant that
for every outgoing call, we had to scan the entire list of
configured TNs to find the correct cert to use.  With only a few
TNs configured, this wasn't an issue but if you have a thousand,
it could be.

What's changed?

* Configuration objects have been refactored to be clearer about
  their uses and to fix issues.
    * The "general" object was renamed to "verification" since it
      contains parameters specific to the incoming verification
      process.  It also never handled ca_path and crl_path
      correctly.
    * A new "attestation" object was added that controls the
      outgoing attestation process.  It sets default certificates,
      keys, etc.
    * The "certificate" object was renamed to "tn" and had it's key
      change to telephone number since outgoing call attestation
      needs to look up certificates by telephone number.
    * The "profile" object had more parameters added to it that can
      override default parameters specified in the "attestation"
      and "verification" objects.
    * The "store" object was removed altogther as it was never
      implemented.

* We now use libjwt to create outgoing Identity headers and to
  parse and validate signatures on incoming Identiy headers.  Our
  previous custom implementation was much of the source of the
  interoperability issues.

* General code cleanup and refactor.
    * Moved things to better places.
    * Separated some of the complex functions to smaller ones.
    * Using context objects rather than passing tons of parameters
      in function calls.
    * Removed some complexity and unneeded encapsuation from the
      config objects.

Resolves: #351
Resolves: #46

UserNote: Asterisk's stir-shaken feature has been refactored to
correct interoperability, RFC compliance, and performance issues.
See https://docs.asterisk.org/Deployment/STIR-SHAKEN for more
information.

UpgradeNote: The stir-shaken refactor is a breaking change but since
it's not working now we don't think it matters. The
stir_shaken.conf file has changed significantly which means that
existing ones WILL need to be changed.  The stir_shaken.conf.sample
file in configs/samples/ has quite a bit more information.  This is
also an ABI breaking change since some of the existing objects
needed to be changed or removed, and new ones added.  Additionally,
if res_stir_shaken is enabled in menuselect, you'll need to either
have the development package for libjwt v1.15.3 installed or use
the --with-libjwt-bundled option with ./configure.

(cherry picked from commit 2e0d837e01)
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app_festival is an application that allows one to send text-to-speech commands
to a background festival server, and to obtain the resulting waveform which
gets sent down to the respective channel. app_festival also employs a waveform
cache, so invariant text-to-speech strings ("Please press 1 for instructions")
do not need to be dynamically generated all the time.

You need :

1) festival, patched to produce 8khz waveforms on output. Patch for Festival
1.4.2 RELEASE are included. The patch adds a new command to festival
(asterisk_tts).

It is possible to run Festival without patches in the source-code. Just
add this to your /etc/festival.scm or /usr/share/festival/festival/scm:

    (define (tts_textasterisk string mode)
    "(tts_textasterisk STRING MODE)
    Apply tts to STRING. This function is specifically designed for
    use in server mode so a single function call may synthesize the string.
    This function name may be added to the server safe functions."
    (let ((wholeutt (utt.synth (eval (list 'Utterance 'Text string)))))
    (utt.wave.resample wholeutt 8000)
    (utt.wave.rescale wholeutt 5)
    (utt.send.wave.client wholeutt)))

[See the comment with subject "Using Debian
 festival >= 1.4.3-15 (no recompiling needed!)" on
 http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+festival+installation for the
 original mentioning of it]

2) You may wish to obtain and install the asterisk-perl
module by James Golovich <james@gnuinter.net>, from
either CPAN, or his site: http://asterisk.gnuinter.net,
as this contains a good example of how variable text
can be tts'd via asterisk, namely the examples/tts-*.agi
files there. It has been noted that the current expression
evaluation capabilities of asterisk are not best suited
for the generation and manipulation of text. AGI scripting
can be ideal for these sorts of needs. For simpler usage,
fixed, pre-recorded messages may be more amenable for your
purposes.

3) Before running asterisk, you have to run festival-server with a command
like :

/usr/local/festival/bin/festival --server > /dev/null 2>&1 &