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<FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="11" DEFAULT="SIZE">Has anyone here tried to use zphone with SIP soft phones and Asterisk?<BR>
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Michael<BR>
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:35:34 -0400, Raymond McKay wrote:<BR>
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>>> Hi,<BR>
>>> Is it possible to encrypt the conversation between two parties on SIP,IAX<BR>
>>> or<BR>
>>> ZAP channels?<BR>
>><BR>
>> Sure, setup a VPN.<BR>
>><BR>
>> You can get a Linksys VPN router for less than $100 and run whatever<BR>
>> protocol you like over your VPN.<BR>
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>Agreed. I have seen and heard of a lot of attempts to bring SRTP support <BR>
>into Asterisk but the idea of SRTP just doesn't make sense to me. Asterisk, <BR>
>and VoIP servers in general, are meant to be communications services not <BR>
>security services. In my mind at least, it would seem to make sense to let <BR>
>security hardware such as a router or firewall handle such tasks as <BR>
>encryption and let the phone server handle what it does, signaling and <BR>
>transcoding. Otherwise, you end up with a device that is not ever going to <BR>
>be optimized for security, handling your security. On top of that, you also <BR>
>are reducing the level of scalability you can achieve on the phone server by <BR>
>adding yet another chore to its duty roster.<BR>
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