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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i bet it still will be wiretapable or will be illegal
- gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Skype's security is one thing I really love about it. Has anyone actually read AOL's TOS for AIM recently??? Now that's scary.
- sohmageek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd love to see the government rule skype illegal... I Think that would be hillarious... I love skype, I'm not anti skype in any way.... but just to see something that's legal and IS allowed... I mean to see the government rule it's illegal to encrypt packets.... What's the difference between a packet that is voice and a packet that is data... nothing really...
- DeMarko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wonder if it will be easy to use but hard to crack?
*puts on tinfoil hat* - Achilles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm eager to see how Steve Gibson's project, 'ispeaq', will turn out. He said something about developing secure VoIP that's reflective to the program Skype.
- battybattybatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I'd love to see the government rule skype illegal... I Think that would be hillarious... "
Then we would get iSkype, finally. - timelord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Re: An interesting idea, but what about latency? Encryption isn't free in terms of processing time. Nor in terms of processing power, either.
I use Skypes VoIP extensively & haven't noticed an discernible difference in latency when going P2P. I'm sure you're right and there is an element of latency but it does seem to have an real-time consequence.
Exclude dial-up & Internet to PSTN (Skype out), both have serious latency issues. - battybattybatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'd love to see the government rule skype illegal... I Think that would be hillarious...
Then we would have iSkype ! - Arevos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OpenPGP is not an encryption algorithm, rather, it is a standard wrapper that allows for the use of several different encryption algorithms in a common format. The advantage to using this, over a fixed algorithm pair (Skype uses RSA/AES), is that if a vulnerability is found in one of your ciphers, you can use another cipher without needing to alter your client's VoIP protocol. Not too big a deal, really.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1tinfoil hats only amplfy gov signals according to scientists at MIT
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/ - caluml, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That is some nasty CSS problems on their site.
- Arevos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Encrypted VoIP is nothing new; as others have mentioned, Skype communications are encrypted. Modern day computers are fast enough to have no problem encrypting voice data on the fly. Nor can the FBI trivially break such encryption, as cyanidenfs alleges. If strong encryption ciphers are used, such as a RSA/AES combination (with 4096/256 bit keys respectively), then it would take the FBI well the heat death of the Universe to decrypt the phone-call.
At least that's the theory. In practice, this assumes that we won't find any faster decryption algorithms, and that there are no flaws in the ciphers used. However, it's likely that strongly encrypted voice data will remain uncrackable well into the foreseeable future. - ZinZa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, actually skype is not true VoIP, since it employs a proprietary protocol not compatible with standards..
Anyway, looking forward for standardized VoIP/Wlan mobiles to really crash the market and take over the gsm networks so we all can throw gsm to trash and start making calls for free/near free :D - Junx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0>An interesting idea, but what about latency? Encryption isn't free in terms
>of processing time. Nor in terms of processing power, either.
But our processing power is quite high nowadays and the use of encryption is negligible. - tdkyo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0>>The FBI will ***** with it somehow lol.
Unfortunately, no one has the machine power to decrypt even a simple blowfish crypted chat messages on the fly. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yes, but they can record it and decrypt it later...
they have enought processing power to do that quickly - Junx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It's about time someone is looking into putting encryption on VoIP. We already have the damn feds trying to wiretap it, and that's a breech of our ***** privacy. The limits to encryption are bad enough...
- battybattybatt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Wut the hell?
- saysaknow, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0STFU!
- MikeEnIke, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0The FBI will ***** with it somehow lol.
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