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  1. Re:PGPfone, where are you? by bdjacobson · · Score: 1 · on Wikileaks Publishes FBI VoIP Surveillance Docs

    Twinkle?
    It handles encryption using ZRTP/SRTP and can do point-to-point (IP2IP) calls like good'ole Speak Freely. If I can't even convince my friends who use Pidgin already, to install PidginEncryption, how am I supposed to get them to use VOIP encryption?

    "Well, it won't happen to me..."
    Part of me wants to support further government wiretaps so that more abuses come to light and we can hopefully then convince people that privacy is important. But the other part hates it when innocent people are tortured for things they did not do.

    So what's the right course of action? I'm starting to wonder if I'm one of the few people that sees these things as problems, and if they are indeed problems, because surely if they were, more people would care about them. Are we just paranoid freaks?
  2. Re:PGPfone, where are you? by mikiN · · Score: 4, Informative · on Wikileaks Publishes FBI VoIP Surveillance Docs

    Twinkle?
    It handles encryption using ZRTP/SRTP and can do point-to-point (IP2IP) calls like good'ole Speak Freely.

  3. Re:Darn... by ncc74656 · · Score: 1 · on Vonage Loses Appeal; Verizon Owed $120 Million

    Guess this means I shouldn't buy that VonageLinksys router gizmo on clearance at Wal-Mart?

    Or maybe I can flash it into something useful when Vonage dies?

    Depends on the price. I recently switched from Packet8 to Gizmo Project; after bricking my DTA310 trying to get it working with Gizmo, I ordered one of these earlier this week. I already have a WRT54GL (running OpenWRT Kamikaze), so I don't need router functionality in an ATA. I might try unbricking the DTA310 at some point, but that's a low priority now.

    (As an aside, flashing your DTA310 with Packet8's v11.11 firmware is a bad idea. It won't work with Packet8 anymore, it won't work with other VoIP providers, and you won't be able to return to a firmware version that does work.)

    (As another aside, Twinkle works great on AMD64 Linux and is less of a hassle to get running that Gizmo's Linux client. Theroetically, KPhone should also work, but I could only get it to work with inbound and toll-free outbound calls.)

  4. Re:What's been the problem with encrypted voice? by gnoshi · · Score: 2, Informative · on PGP Is 15 Years Old

    Yes, yes there are.

    Twinkle (Linux) supports both SRTP and ZRTP.
    Minisip and Minisplat (both Linux) presently support SRTP and are working toward ZRTP support.
    Eyebeam (Windows) supports SRTP
    ZFone (Windows, Linux, MacOSX) uses ZRTP and can work with any SIP-based software (because it intercepts and encrypts the stream).
    OpenWengo (Windows, Linux) is in the process of implementing SRTP, with some automated key exchange, and later ZRTP is planned.

    So really, the answer is: yes, yes there are implementations.

  5. SIP-clients by aliquis · · Score: 1 · on Firefox VoIP Client

    no
    no
    no
    and no

  6. Re:Is this compatible with consumer VoIP? by lintux · · Score: 2, Informative · on Ekiga 2.0 Released

    I use Twinkle together with a SipDiscount account, FWIW. Works quite well for me so far. Will think of buying real SIP hardware later, maybe.

  7. catch up and be open (SIP standard compliant) by Falcon040 · · Score: 3, Informative · on Skype Makes U.S. Retail Debut

    VoIP not only needs to catch up but also be open like email, and unlike the divided IM space.
    Unfortunately Skype is not the application which connects to an open network.

    Only applications like Gizmo http://www.gizmoproject.com/ and many other ones (which I don't use) connect to the International Standard-compliant Protocol known as SIP.

    If you want voice chat (VoIP) on Linux then you have a good selection too (I don't know which are SIP compliant and which are not though):

    http://www.phonegaim.com/
    http://cockatoo.mozdev.org/
    http://www.gizmoproject.com/
    http://www.linphone.org/
    http://www.wirlab.net/kphone/
    http://www.minisip.org/
    http://www.sflphone.org/
    http://www.sipfoundry.org/
    http://www.twinklephone.com/
    http://www.openwengo.com/
    http://yate.null.ro/
    http://www.divmod.org/projects/shtoom

  8. IM for linux, VoIP for linux by Falcon040 · · Score: 1 · on Linux Instant Messengers

    In addition to the number of good IM clients for Linux (especially GAIM), if you want voice chat (VoIP) on Linux then you have a good selection too: PhoneGaim : http://www.phonegaim.com/ ( http://cockatoo.mozdev.org/ ( http://www.gizmoproject.com/ ( http://www.linphone.org/ KPhone : http://www.wirlab.net/kphone/ Skype : http://www.skype.com/ ( http://www.minisip.org/ SFLphone : http://www.sflphone.org/ SIPfoundry : http://www.sipfoundry.org/ Twinkle : http://www.twinklephone.com/ openwengo : http://www.openwengo.com/ Yate : http://yate.null.ro/ shtoom : http://www.divmod.org/projects/shtoom Best to get one that connects via 'SIP' and is entirely standard-compliant, then you can connect to anyone on other standard networks (except those in closed networks like Skype(???)).