At 11:25 AM 1/27/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: >On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:23:15AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >> The versions of all the secure phones I've evaluated needed this >> feature: >> a minimal answering machine. With just the ability to record IPs of
> Pretty hard to do if people are using dialup. Or even dsl, unless they run a >linux box they don't ever reboot -- although I've found my dsl ip changing >sometimes on it's own, and with no rhyme or reason. Merely notifying me that someone called is useful. It wouldn't require rocket science to recognize an entire class C address as a friend. And remember this proposal is fully back compatible with earlier versions of a sec phone. If you wanted to mess with the protocol, you could obviously add an identifier exchange component. I am not familiar with SpeakFreely's protocol so I don't know if it can be extended without breaking compatability.