On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:53:35PM +0100, Dave Howe wrote: > >That may have just been an artifact of a bad implementation, though. DTLS > >might be a better pick for securing VoIP. There's also SRTP. > > The strength of a pure VPN solution is that you aren't limited to *just* > VoIP - you can transfer files, use whiteboarding, run videoconferencing, > support text channels..... even play games :)
Well, nothing stopping you from treating your datagram-based VPN (ie, DTLS) as an IP tunnel, and doing TCP-like stuff on top of it to handle the IM and file transfer. Actually I'm working on something rather like that now, which may or not get finished soon. -Jack