Are you talking about ZiPhone a USB device ?
 
Mike
 
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Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Encrypting the Conversation

Has anyone here tried to use zphone with SIP soft phones and Asterisk?

Michael

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:35:34 -0400, Raymond McKay wrote:

>
>>> Hi,
>>> Is it possible to encrypt the conversation between two parties on SIP,IAX
>>> or
>>> ZAP channels?
>>
>> Sure, setup a VPN.
>>
>> You can get a Linksys VPN router for less than $100 and run whatever
>> protocol you like over your VPN.
>
>Agreed. I have seen and heard of a lot of attempts to bring SRTP support
>into Asterisk but the idea of SRTP just doesn't make sense to me. Asterisk,
>and VoIP servers in general, are meant to be communications services not
>security services. In my mind at least, it would seem to make sense to let
>security hardware such as a router or firewall handle such tasks as
>encryption and let the phone server handle what it does, signaling and
>transcoding. Otherwise, you end up with a device that is not ever going to
>be optimized for security, handling your security. On top of that, you also
>are reducing the level of scalability you can achieve on the phone server by
>adding yet another chore to its duty roster.
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Raymond McKay
>President
>RAYNET Technologies LLC
>http://www.raynettech.com
>(860) 693-2226 x 31
>Toll Free (877) 693-2226
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