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Posted by _ on May 22, 2008, 6:42 am
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Apparently there is a political balloon being floated in the UK for a
massive database of details of all calls to be kept for a period of years,
as an aid to the "war on terror". This does not (yet) include content, but
where's there's smoke...
What's the current state of the art as regards commercial, publically
available encryption of voice calls? I assume that if you were using a
computer-based VIOP system that it would be easily possible to do this
quite effectively, but what is available for POTS and mobile telephones,
and how good is it?
***** Moderator's Note *****
I saw a demo on TV a few years ago, where Phil Zimmerman, who created
the PGP program, showed that he could encrypt a voice call over the
internet. You'll have to find the details, but the chances are that
there's a way to do it with open-source software.
However, unless you're employed by a government, the call detail
records will point a finger at the endpoints of the call, and thus
(usually) at you. If encrypting phone calls is illegal in your
country, the content of a call might not matter.
It all boils down to what an intelligence agent would call an
"Equities" issue, i.e., how much you reveal by your actions or speech
compared to what you gain. If you encrypt a voice call during which
you talk about the weather, and thereby risk a jail term, then you've
lost the equity debate. OTOH, if your call concerns the whereabouts of
people who are in an "underground railroad", you might feel that the
risk of encryption is justified.
Bill Horne
Temporary Moderator
(Please put [Telecom] at the end of the subject line of your post, or
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