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RE: VoIP Security Flaws


  • To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: VoIP Security Flaws
  • From: "Simon Randall" <srandall@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:19:22 -0000
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My view on encryption is that a current phone line is not encrypted!  So
any thing with VOIP has the same risk attached to to it as a standard BT
line I think ?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ross McKillop [mailto:home@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 January 2004 14:32
To: ukha_d@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] VoIP Security Flaws

> Dare I point out that unless you run your VoIP over an encrypted VPN,
> NOTHING you do is secure. If you do happen to run over an encrypted
> VPN,
> then there's no reason to have the VoIP ports open to the outside
world
> anyway, hence less risk of being affected by any compromise.

At work all VoIP goes over encrypted VPN, but that does bring up an
interesting
question.. is there any encryption used on this new BT BroadbandVoice
service?

Anyone on this list using it yet?

Ross


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