[ale] Fwd: [VOIPSEC] Phil Zimmerman to release VoIP Encryption Software(c.March)

[Geoffrey]

Interesting info on Phil's voip work....

Christian Stredicke wrote:
> Tom, open source does not mean it is not proprietary. 
> 
> Zfone uses "ZRTP", which is currently his own proprietary protocol. I
> appreciate Phil's work, it is surely a masterpiece. But it is too late!
> The rest of this planet has agreed in the meantime on SRTP and TLS. Phil
> should have contributed to RFC3261 (sips, tls transport layer) and
> RFC3711 (SRTP). RFC3261 was published in June 2002, and SRTP was
> published in March 2004. If Phil introduces it in March to the IETF, I
> do not assume it will become an RFC too soon.

Now I don't follow the voip stuff so closely that I've read the RFC's so 
I don't know how valid the above statement is.

I'll not forward every thread about this to the list, as it might be 
considered a bit off topic.  If you want to stay on top of it, get on 
the voip list...

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Until later, Geoffrey