[TriLUG] easy encrypted VoIP?

Andrew C. Oliver acoliver at buni.org
Tue Jun 5 10:47:47 EDT 2007


99.9% of the "unconstitutional wiretapping" is intended more to capture 
who is talking to whom rather than what they are saying.  That is a much 
more difficult problem to solve.

Brian Henning wrote:
> Skype *claims* to be end-to-end encrypted.  I suspect that it's
> end-to-central-server-unencrypted-tapped-reencrypted-central-server-to-e
> nd.  But that could just be the tinfoil hat talking.
> 
> ~B
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Magnus
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:39 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: [TriLUG] easy encrypted VoIP?
> 
> So with all of this unconstitutional wiretapping going on, I'm half
> tempted to route most of my phone calls over VoIP instead of the
> conventional phone networks.  I'm wondering if end-to-end encryption is
> feasible yet (assuming VoIP at both ends of the connection).


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