Phillip has released his software for encryptiong VoIP; looks
interesting :)

http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/zfone/index.html

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On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Simon P. Ditner wrote:

> "Security on VoIP". Phillip Zimmerman, the author of PGP (software for
> encrypting and signing documents and emails) spoke on his
> soon-to-be-released VoIP encryption software. It works independently
> of SIP by encrypting RTP streams end to end. The part I found
> particularly clever was his technique for verify that there is no man
> in the middle snooping your call (I'm not a crypto expert, so the
> details are a bit fuzzy). Essentially, the way it works is that once a
> call is set up, you speak your public key to the other person, and
> verify that that is what they received on their end. Now the really
> clever part is that for each subsequent call to the same party, your
> previous key and previous remote party's key are used to generate a
> key for this call, creating a trust relationship in the same manner
> that Verisign signs an SSL certificate for Thawte, and then Thawte can
> sign your certificate, and so on.
>

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