--- On Sun, 12/26/10, Sergei Steshenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Sergei Steshenko <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekliga Encryption. > To: "Ekiga mailing list" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, December 26, 2010, 1:49 PM > > > --- 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. > > The "firewall" word should better be replaced with NAT. Regards, Sergei. _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
