VoIP through Tor is possible now: Below I describe the VoIP clients "PSI-Jingle" and "PhoneGaim" and how they can be routed over Tor via. TCP/IP.(untested).
----------------------------------------------------- -PSI-Jingle: "PSI-Jingle" uses Jabber's "Jingle" VoIP feature, PSI-Jingle also has a proxy window for Socks5 configuration. PSI end-to-end encryption feature utilizes GPGP. If you don't use GPGP you can't use PSI's end-to-end encryption feature :-(. ***Is it possible to run PSI and VoIP through Tor Hidden Services(HS)? This would offer the end-to-end TLS tunneling that is IMHO requried for VoIP. Authentication of parties particapating in the VoIP call is a problem for non-GPGP users that HS won't solve. --Directions for PSI-Jingle on Windows: A. Start PSI B. open the "PSI: Account Properties" window C. click the "connection" tab D. Click the following boxes: -Use SSL encryption (to server) -Manually specify server host/port >Host: 127.0.0.1 >Port: 9050 (8118 if privoxy is configured correctly) E. click the "save" button --Links: 1. "Torifying software HOWTO" (torify PSI info) http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO#head-25c1a1e0fe88492330e3717e659f8ac8612043f5 2. Download "PSI-Jingle" http://psi-im.org/ 3. "Jabber VoIP Press Release" http://www.jabber.org/press/2005-12-15.shtml 4. "PSI_Jingle_Brach" info http://psi-im.org/wiki/Jingle_branch 5. "PSI-Jingle" message-board http://forum.psi-im.org/forum/18 ----------------------------------------------------- -PhoneGaim: PhoneGaim uses Jabber's Jingle lib which uses SIP for VoIP and it PhoneGaim offers a proxy window for Socks5 configuration. PhoneGaim is beta but looks very good and very much like Gaim itself. PhoneGaim is the marrage of the origainal Gaim with Jabber Jingle VoIP support. I think PhoneGaim is to replace the Gaim v.2.x in the future but I'm not sure. As far as end-to-end encryption goes Gaim offers the OTR plugin. PhoneGaim can also use the OTR plugin (I think) but I'm not sure if OTR supports VoIP in PhoneGaim (testing requried). If PhoneGaim-OTR supports VoIP then the problems of party authentication and tunnel encryption (eg. perfect forward secery) is solved as OTR does exactaly that. In this case Zfone is not required as OTR offers all the functionality of Zfone. I'm hoping John Haller will do a "portable" PhoneGaim as he's done for some many other programs. --Directions for PSI-Jingle on Windows: A. Start PhoneGaim (eg. 'Gaim' under "Start > All Programs") B. Go to "Accounts" then open your account or start a new one. C. Under "Add Accounts" window choose: -Proxy Options: Socks5 >Host: 127.0.0.1 >Port: 9050 (8118 if privoxy is configured correctly) D. Click the "save" button --Links: 1. "PhoneGaim" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhoneGaim 2. Download "PhoneGaim-v.0.79.5" beta for Windows http://sipphone.com/phonegaim/ ----------------------------------------------------- >-Issues and Notes: 1. One issue I have with Jabber's Jingle lib is much of the code for Jingle was written by coders for Google (I don't trust Google at all). 2. PSI-Jingle and PhoneGaim utilize Jabbers "Jingle lib" which runs SIP, and SIP employes UDP. As such, Tor may not be able to route the VoIP traffic of PSI-Jingle or PhoneGaim. Testing is required. ------------------------------------------------------ Any opinions? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
