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Schaller: The long journey towards good free video conferencing

Posted Oct 16, 2012 8:49 UTC (Tue) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848)
Parent article: Schaller: The long journey towards good free video conferencing

One thing that I hardly ever see mentioned with VOIP is security. Which is pretty shocking to me.

Does ZRTP work with XMPP? Is anybody working on something like that? I hope people don't just settle on a CA based hierarchies are fine ways of protecting people approach...

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Posted Oct 16, 2012 15:20 UTC (Tue) by shmerl (guest, #65921) [Link]

Take a look at:
http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/OTR
http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0262.html

OTR is quite commonly supported at least on desktop clients (Pidgin, Jitsi, Adium etc.). ZRTP is still dragging behind in support (Jitsi supports it I think).

See https://jitsi.org/index.php/Documentation/ZrtpFAQ

Schaller: The long journey towards good free video conferencing

Posted Oct 16, 2012 15:24 UTC (Tue) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848) [Link]

Thanks for the links. I have used OTR with IM, and think it's great.

However I was referring to encryption of audio and video. As far as I can see OTR is only for instant messaging.

Schaller: The long journey towards good free video conferencing

Posted Oct 16, 2012 15:37 UTC (Tue) by shmerl (guest, #65921) [Link]

Yep, OTR is for the IM part of XMPP. But if you care about privacy, you don't want your media stream to be encrypted, while your text messages are not :)