On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:55 AM, hhhh xhdhx <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I figured the lgical thing to add to torchat would be voip .Is there any > > move to that end , can anyone give me pointers as to probable protocols , > > packages that can be ported to torchat .Or how abt getting ekiga to do > the > > same along with zrtp .??? > > Pretty much all VoIP protocols use UDP— which makes sense for their > normal realtime operation. > > For voice over tor you'd really want some kind of push-to-talk > moderate latency system that uses TCP. There really isn't a lot like > that out there, but developing one wouldn't be hard. For the audio > coding codec2 (http://codec2.org/) would be the obvious choice right > now— in order to keep the load on the network nice and low. > > > It sure would be nice if tor had mutually authenticated peer to peer > connections. So that every X-over-tor protocol doesn't have to invent > some crazy binding protocol like torchat uses to mutually authenticate > a hidden service. E.g. something to allows a hidden service key to be > used as "caller-id" while calling another hidden service. > *********************************************************************** > What torchat does is a simple authentication ,where A connects to B & then B connects to A , so that both are sure of the other party, I guess the same could be done for every other authenticated peer to peer application. > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with > unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ >
