[Asterisk-Users] Encrypting SIP Phones

[John Todd]

My perspective is "Yes, there is a LOT of interest!" but there are no 
desktop phones that are capable of using SRTP at this point.  The 
IETF is being painfully slow about making this an RFC, and the drafts 
have "unintentionally expired."   <sigh>

If you feel like prodding your favorite VoIP phone manufacturer into 
including SRTP into their next SIP deployment, join the chorus.  As 
soon as some boxes get out there and support it, I'm sure someone on 
the ball with Asterisk will be interested in implementing it.

JT


At 9:41 AM +0200 10/22/03, Low, Adam wrote:
>
>Hi Bryan,
>
>I am aware that the IETF have an Internet Draft in the pipelines for 
>SRTP which can provide encryption and there is a lib out there 
>available at: http://srtp.sourceforge.net/srtp.html
>
>I guess the real question would be if there is any intension to 
>include this (or an equivelant) in the Asterisk source tree. I 
>personally hope there is ...
>
>Rgds, Adam
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bryan Nolen
>To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>Sent: 22/10/03 09:16
>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Encrypting SIP Phones
>
>Has anyone ever heard of such a beast? do they exist? (soft or hard
>phone)
>
>I am referring to the encrypting of the RTP data as the SIP headers will
>need to be read by asterisk still....
>
>Bryan Nolen
>Lead Developer
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