Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-25 Thread Bill Stewart
At 05:45 PM 11/20/2003 -0800, Bill Frantz wrote: At 4:40 PM -0800 11/20/03, Ralf-P. Weinmann wrote: >... There should be a means to cache credentials after an initial >trust relationship between communicating parties has been established. Cache entries would be a way for someone who obtains the pho

Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-21 Thread Morlock Elloi
> From what I've gathered from the diagrams in [1], it seems to be using > AES-256 > in counter-mode XORed together with Twofish counter-mode output, Twofish also > being keyed with a 256 bit value. I sense paranoia here - but being paranoid > myself sometimes I very much welcome this decision! Tho

Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-21 Thread Ralf-P. Weinmann
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:59:36PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: > At 01:39 PM 11/19/2003 -0500, Jack Lloyd wrote: > > > > "We allow everyone to check the security for themselves, because > > > > we're the only ones who publish the source code," said Rop Gonggrijp > > > >"We are currently performing a

Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-21 Thread Bill Frantz
At 4:40 PM -0800 11/20/03, Ralf-P. Weinmann wrote: >Hmm.. Does this mean the users have to read of SHA-256 hash values to each >other after the connection has been established? Oh. Right. It says "Readout >hash based key authentication" on the left hand side of the spec. You probably don't have to

Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-20 Thread Bill Stewart
> If and when this is accomplished the source could then be used, > if it can't already, for PC-PC secure communications. > A practical replacement for SpeakFreely may be at hand. > The limitation of either direct phone or ISDN connection requirement > is a problem though. While the phone hardw

Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-20 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:59:36PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: > If and when this is accomplished the source could then be used, if it can't > already, for PC-PC secure communications. A practical replacement for > SpeakFreely may be at hand. The limitation of either direct phone or ISDN FYI I

Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-20 Thread Neil Johnson
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 05:33 pm, Dave Howe wrote: > Steve Schear wrote: > > No, but this may be of interest. > > http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_hellweg111903.asp > > > > Its closed source but claims to use AES. > > *nods* > closed source, proprietory protocol, as opposed to SIP

Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-20 Thread Dave Howe
Neil Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 19 November 2003 05:33 pm, Dave Howe wrote: > SIP is just the part of the VoIP protocols that handling signaling > (off-hook, dialing digits, ringing the phone, etc.). The voice data > is handled by Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), one stream for > each direct

Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-20 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:59 PM 11/19/03 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: >If and when this is accomplished the source could then be used, if it can't >already, for PC-PC secure communications. They claim to be releasing code for PCs for free. A practical replacement for >SpeakFreely may be at hand. The limitation of eit

Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:57 PM 11/19/2003 +, Dave Howe wrote: Steve Schear wrote: > If and when this is accomplished the source could then be used, if it > can't already, for PC-PC secure communications. A practical > replacement for SpeakFreely may be at hand. The limitation of either > direct phone or ISDN co

Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-20 Thread Dave Howe
Steve Schear wrote: > No, but this may be of interest. > http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_hellweg111903.asp > > Its closed source but claims to use AES. *nods* closed source, proprietory protocol, as opposed to SIP which is an RFC standard (and interestingly, is supported natively by Win

Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-19 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:39 PM 11/19/2003 -0500, Jack Lloyd wrote: > > "We allow everyone to check the security for themselves, because > > we're the only ones who publish the source code," said Rop Gonggrijp "We are currently performing a internal round of reviews with a expert group of security researchers and cryp

Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-19 Thread Dave Howe
Steve Schear wrote: > If and when this is accomplished the source could then be used, if it > can't already, for PC-PC secure communications. A practical > replacement for SpeakFreely may be at hand. The limitation of either > direct phone or ISDN connection requirement is a problem though. *nods

Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-19 Thread Jack Lloyd
> > "We allow everyone to check the security for themselves, because > > we're the only ones who publish the source code," said Rop Gonggrijp "We are currently performing a internal round of reviews with a expert group of security researchers and cryptographers. Depending on the results of this re

Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-19 Thread Heinz-Juergen 'Tom' Keller
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:57:57AM -0500, Adam Shostack wrote: > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61289,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_7 > > > "We allow everyone to check the security for themselves, because > > we're the only ones who publish the source code," said Rop Gonggrijp > > at Amsterda

Freedomphone

2003-11-19 Thread Adam Shostack
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61289,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_7 > "We allow everyone to check the security for themselves, because > we're the only ones who publish the source code," said Rop Gonggrijp > at Amsterdam-based NAH6. Gonggrijp, who helped develop the software, > owns a stake