Are My Internet Calls Secure?
May 2,
2016
I recently switched my home phone service from POTS (plain old telephone service) to VoIP (voice over IP). One friend asked, whether or not I was concerned about the security of my calls. I said that I was less concerned now, than I was before. Here’s why: There are two basic types of calls I […]
Are Consumer Crypto Systems Too Hard To Use?
Mar 16,
2016
In a previous post, I summarized some academic papers in which prominent cryptographers and other security experts took a very skeptical look at current cryptography, both research and practical systems. It’s not just e-mail plugins and other desktop computer applications that can disappoint us. One of the papers showed that the APCO Project 25 two-way […]
communications security,
COMSEC,
cryptography,
Diffie-Hellman,
Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral,
Man-in-the-Middle attack,
MitM,
risk analysis,
RTP,
user interface design,
VoIP,
ZRTP
