From today’s Dragon News Bytes:
Title: Viber Communication Security - unscramble the scrambled
Author: Michiel Appelman, Jeffrey Bosma and Gerrie Veerman
Source: SNE/OS3
Date Published: 24th December 2011
'In the past couple of years more and more communications which
used to use
Eric,
I'm really not impressed with the so called security that is present in
Viper. Sorry, but Viper's security seems pretty much like Snake Oil (See Feb
19, 1999 Cryptogram for details, http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9902.html )
Perhaps good to experiment with, but I wouldn't rely on it
Thanks, Talmon, for replying.
This leaves a lot of questions open, unfortunately. There is a lengthy thread
on Viber security on the Stanford University Liberation Technology list with a
number of security experts, so copying your response to the list.
Regards,
Katrin
On Sep 21, 2012, at
Thanks Katrin and Talmon,
Voice may or may not pass through our servers (depending on network
conditions). Voice is scrambled, but not encrypted. So someone who
manages to capture the voice packets going between users may, in
theory be able to access the audio. They will need a good
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