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I've recently given a try to Jitsi [1] and seriously it works great. It really is a Skype drop-in replacement, and is fully open source. Without any need for co
by p4bl0 13y ago
I've recently given a try to Jitsi [1] and seriously it works great. It really is a Skype drop-in replacement, and is fully open source. Without any need for configuration, I could discuss by text, audio, and video (and also do screen-sharing) all encrypted between my Debian laptop and a Windows PC, using existing XMPP (Jabber) account.
Really I've never seen any other free software do as good as Jitsi in the VoIP field. I've always tried SIP client and it was never perfect. Jitsi can do SIP to, but does wonder over XMPP so I didn't even try SIP.
[1] http://jitsi.org/ http://jitsi.org/
- frank_boyd 13y agoDoes it encrypt PGP-style?
- rdtsc 13y agoMore like ZRTP style, also not sure exactly what you mean by PGP-style
- verandaguy 13y agoPGP gathers entropy for keys using user interactions with the computer (mouse movements, keyboard input, normal usage) as well as disk and memory activity, making for more true random number generation than the PRNG that uses the pool in many modern processors, which could be 'fixed' by the NSA following recent revelations.
- p4bl0 13y agoThat's not specific to PGP at all.
- verandaguy 13y agoNo, but it's known for being commonly used in PGP. I could be wrong, but that's what I understand when someone says, "PGP-style encryption."
- RDeckard 13y ago"PGP-style encryption" probably implies public-key cryptography. Like the other poster said, using various computer inputs to feed the entropy source during key generation is not specific to PGP or public-key cryptography at all.
- verandaguy 13y agoThat seems like a misleadingly-broad term, but sure. IMO, public-key cryptography (or just asymmetric crypto) is already an improvement over "the Diffie-Hellman key exchange," which is what's generally implied when talking about public-key crypto.