VoIP client

[Udo Puetz]

On Sun, 18.09.05, Stephan Hermann <sh at sourcecode.de> wrote:
> Hi Udo,

Hi Stephan and List

> Am Samstag, den 17.09.2005, 21:24 +0200 schrieb Udo Puetz:
> > Hi List. This is my first post so be gentle :)
> > I've lurked on the list for some time and saw the discussion about adding
> > shtoom as a voip client to ubuntu. I tried it then (snapshots) and they
> > didn't work.
> 
> It works ;) But it's not mature enough to be used by endusers, there is
> a lot of work to do...advantage of shtoom is: it's written in python, so
> you can easily change some source :)

I see it's advantage of core library -> different gui interfaces but, lets
face it, it's rather old now. You really have to show it some love to get it
working.

> > Just now I've been looking over some voip clients (list of found clients here
> > http://vobcopy.org/cgi-bin/blosxom/2005/09/17#liste-softphones) and found 
> > http://www.minisip.org/ which seems really nice, is licensed under the
> > gpl and - as a big plus - offers encryption of the audio stream. I've seen
> > numerous reports lately that with voip taking off now a thought should be
> > spend on the security of the transmission. So, if you want to add a voice
> > over IP client to ubuntu (which I would really welcome) why not do it the 
> > right way from the start? 
> 
> I just had a look on minisip. I think next week I will test it and
> prepare some packages.
> 
> Let's see how it works..nevertheless, I don't think encryption is a
> standard now for SIP.

I looked a little into SIP the last few days and yes, encrytion isn't
standard in SIP. But the way minisip does it is in my eyes rather logical,
it's not some mumbo jumbo with proprietary stuff but uses standard libs and,
since the authors of minisip have developed the encrytion part as part of
their master thesis, I tend to think it's well researched and thought
through. And minisip also works without the encrytion stuff so it's a bonus,
not a hindrance. I for one are in favor of encryption :) and it might also
be a selling point (over e.g. skype): "look, with minisip you are using the
standard and can communicate to all the other sip users and your talk is
secured from eavesdropping!"
Cheers
Udo

> Regards,
> 
> \sh
> 
> 

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