On Wednesday 03 August 2005 17:48, Mike Ramsay wrote: > Hi all I was wondering how safe voip for privacy and can it be > intercepted.
Unless it's encrypted, it's interceptable. It's funny, because I consider traditional landlines as easily intercepted, if not moreso, than VOIP traffic. Hell most cellular calls still use such weak encryption that anyone with a few thousand dollars to spare can intercept your cell traffic. > When Simon was working at the same place I was, he did some test and found > that after a call was completed, ie connect two SIP phones the connection > became, > point to point no asterisk server in the middle. Yes, this is exactly what you want in most situations. > My question is how do we secure the point to point connection from people > monitoring it. Encryption. Either between individual phones or over an IPSec type of tunnel between LANs. -A.
