Hello Zfone!
by Sunil JamesGreetings from Ann Arbor…I’m @ Rendez-Vous Cafe – right in the heart of Michigan’s central campus – having a cup of their delicious chocolate raspberry coffee (a must-try if ever you come up to A2). I returned last evening from Vancouver, still a bit over-whelmed at the strong line-up that Dragos put together (nice job!). If you didn’t get a chance to make it out there, check out the conference’s site for the slides (mucho kudos to BreakingPoint Systems’ Dennis Cox for his very enlightening and entertaining presentation!).
ANYways…for those of you who’ve been living under a rock, or were stranded on a desolate island w/ a freaky crew of 48 survivors, I wanted to pass along news of an interesting beta application built by Phil Zimmerman – Zfone.From the website:
“Zfone uses a new protocol called ZRTP, which is better than the other approaches to secure VoIP, because it achieves security without reliance on a PKI, key certification, trust models, certificate authorities, or key management complexity that bedevils the email encryption world. It also does not rely on SIP signaling for the key management, and in fact does not rely on any servers at all. It performs its key agreements and key management in a purely peer-to-peer manner over the RTP packet stream. It interoperates with any standard SIP phone, but naturally only encrypts the call if you are calling another ZRTP client.”
We’re about one month into the tool’s release, and I’m wondering if anybody has any thoughts or reactions to the software? Also, any reax to the proposed IETF draft?
