Re: [Ekiga-list] Zphone

[Ed <Ekiga 0x1b com>]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Jim Muchow <jdm muchow dk> wrote:

I have a couple of questions.

The first is that I have read that the Ekiga VoIP client is expected to
support the ZRTP protocol. Is this still true? I'm just curious.

Because the second question is why do I care? I mean, I've asked
and looked around the net and I don't quite understand why VoIP
encryption is necessary. I mean, I understand that encrypted
communications are a good thing and a worthwhile goal, but VoIP
traffic doesn't seem quite as, um, exposed to snooping concerns as
say ftp/telnet vs sftp/ssh.

Thanks for any info,
Jim Muchow
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VoIP is very much in the clear - much like ftp/telnet, anyone that dumps the traffic can reconstruct everything from credentials to the conversation.

This in unlike ssh based transactions that, if you use a cert, are considerably harder to break down and understand the elements of the communication.

ZRTP is a good thing(tm) - you want it.