Nathan, You've probably explained this before, but what is the difference between OSTN and RedPhone?
Thanks. -Richard On 06/21/2013 10:30 AM, Nathan of Guardian wrote: > On 06/20/2013 10:08 AM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: >> To the Skype promoters, apologists and deniers - I encourage you to >> start using, and improving Jitsi - it needs a lot of love but it at >> least has a chance of being secure, whereas Skype is beyond repair. > > I also want to add to this, that in order to use Jitsi, you need a > trustworthy, privacy-oriented SIP service provider [0], to go with it. > This means someone that doesn't keep logs, doesn't require real name > registration, defaults to secure, and that also offers features to help > defend against traffic analysis and mass metadata gathering [1]. > > This is exactly what we have been working on at Guardian Project with > our Open Secure Telephony Network [2] project and our public > beta/testbed service at OStel.co. The base service platform we are using > is Kamailio [3], which is a project that should be as equally supported > as Jitsi. > > Ultimately, our goal is not to replace one single service with another > single service, but rather to enable every user, organization, NGO, > collective, cooperative, etc to run their own service, or at least have > a variety of hosted service operators that run at a known quality and > standard for privacy-oriented voice and video communications. > > +n > > [0] OSTel privacy policy https://ostel.co/privacy > > [1] more technical discussion here about our approach compared to a > typical voice operator: > https://guardianproject.info/2013/06/12/carrier-grade-verizon-and-the-nsa/ > > [2] OSTN/OStel source https://github.com/guardianproject/OSTel > > [3] Kamailio - Open Source SIP Server - http://www.kamailio.org/ > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- =================== R. R. Brooks Associate Professor Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Clemson University 313-C Riggs Hall PO Box 340915 Clemson, SC 29634-0915 USA Tel. 864-656-0920 Fax. 864-656-5910 email: [email protected] web: http://www.clemson.edu/~rrb -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
