Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekliga Encryption.

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- On Sun, 12/26/10, Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com> wrote:

> From: Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>
> Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekliga Encryption.
> To: "Ekiga mailing list" <ekiga-list gnome org>
> Date: Sunday, December 26, 2010, 1:49 PM
> 
> 
> --- On Sun, 12/26/10, Stuart Gathman <stuart gathman org>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Stuart Gathman <stuart gathman org>
> > Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekliga Encryption.
> > To: ekiga-list gnome org
> > Date: Sunday, December 26, 2010, 11:35 AM
> > On 12/26/2010 01:03 PM, Grigory
> > Sarnitskiy wrote:
> > > Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VoIP_software)
> > says there is no encryption in Ekiga. I'm pretty dumb
> in all
> > that security stuff, but still I want to have some
> level of
> > encryption. How do I secure my conversations?
> > Ekiga does not support sRTP (Secure RTP) (other
> softphones
> > do). 
> > However, if you and the person at the other end are
> > able to install and configure openvpn, then just
> connect to
> > them
> > directly over the vpn tunnel, using the private IP if
> you
> > don't have DNS
> > or hosts file, and your conversation is encrypted. 
> > OpenVPN is available
> > for Windows as well as linux.  IPsec also works (and
> > supported out of
> > the box for both Windows and Linux), but is trickier
> to
> > configure IMHO
> > (I've done both).
> 
> I am not sure OpenVPN works in case _both_ parties are
> behind a firewall.
> 
> If I understand correctly, if both parties are behind a
> firewall, a STUN
> server is necessary, and even with STUN server success
> depends on firewall
> type.
> 
> I don't remember STUN mentioned in VPN configuration.
> 
> Regards,
>   Sergei.
> 
> 

The "firewall" word should better be replaced with NAT.

Regards,
  Sergei.