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.

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