--- On Sun, 12/26/10, Stuart Gathman <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Stuart Gathman <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekliga Encryption. > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, December 26, 2010, 11:35 AM > On 12/26/2010 01:03 PM, Grigory > Sarnitskiy wrote: > > Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VoIP_software) > says there is no encryption in Ekiga. I'm pretty dumb in all > that security stuff, but still I want to have some level of > encryption. How do I secure my conversations? > Ekiga does not support sRTP (Secure RTP) (other softphones > do). > However, if you and the person at the other end are > able to install and configure openvpn, then just connect to > them > directly over the vpn tunnel, using the private IP if you > don't have DNS > or hosts file, and your conversation is encrypted. > OpenVPN is available > for Windows as well as linux. IPsec also works (and > supported out of > the box for both Windows and Linux), but is trickier to > configure IMHO > (I've done both). I am not sure OpenVPN works in case _both_ parties are behind a firewall. If I understand correctly, if both parties are behind a firewall, a STUN server is necessary, and even with STUN server success depends on firewall type. I don't remember STUN mentioned in VPN configuration. Regards, Sergei. _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
