Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Ekiga & ZRTP

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hi !

Le lundi 18 juin 2007 �0:47 +0200, HBw_ sms at a �it :
> Hi Damien!
> 
> I recently got across Ekiga and want to use your software to stay in touch with my friends worldwide (BTW: I'm using the Windows-port of Ekiga (Version 2.0.9-BETA)).
> As I am a quite security-aware person, I would like to have encryption for the VoIP-calls that I'm doing. The concept of Phil Zimmermann's ZRTP (implemented in 'Zfone') sounded nice to me, so I want to use this protocol. Unfortunately, 'Zfone' is only available for WinXP (and Linux and MacOS) so far, but I'm using Win2k on my machine. I already tried to install it anyway, but I weren't successful.
> So I hope, that either Phil Zimmermann will soon release Zfone also for Win2k, or you will soon release Ekiga with ZRTP already implemented.
> 
> While surfing on Wikipedia, I found some articles where Ekiga is mentioned, but which have controversial statements regarding its encryption-abilities. The Article 'Comparison of VoIP software' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VoIP_software) says, that Ekiga already utilizes ZRTP, so does the article about ZRTP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZRTP). However, the article about Ekiga itself (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekiga) states, that ZRTP is a feature which apparently isn't yet available. I too couldn't find any traces of any form of encryption, when I skimmed through Ekiga's dialogs.
> 
> So which information is true? Did the authors of the Wikipedia-articles make a mistake? Or are they right and Ekiga does already suit my needs in terms of strong and reliable VoIP-encryption, but I just didn't find out so far?

We are working on ZRTP, there is very basic support for encryption, but
not for the signaling yet. Keep watching the mailing list or my blog for
more information about that.
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