[asterisk-users] How Secure Is Asterisk

[Tim Panton]

On 22 Oct 2008, at 07:23, Nikolai Lusan wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 14:01 -0500, Steve Anness wrote:
>> However, realistically if I am using the asterisk server to make
>> internal calls and discussion very private matters, how possible is  
>> it
>> for someone to listen to calls?  How good is the encryption if any
>> over an IAX trunk?
>
> There is no encryption on SIP or IAX. If you are only making internal
> calls (i.e. there is no external exposure of *) then you could put the

There is in IAX - set
encryption=yes
in iax.conf at both ends of a link and all md5 auth'd
IAX calls between them will be AES encrypted.

Very cool, very easy.

Tim