15 Mar
2011
15 Mar
'11
6:59 p.m.
New recent study at *(Johns Hopkins / UNC)* says it can *Uncover spoken phrases in *encrypted* VoIP conversations * *(Johns Hopkins / UNC) ACM paper* We evaluate our techniques on a standard speech recognition corpus containing over 2,000 phonetically rich phrases spoken by 630 distinct speakers from across the continental United States. Our results indicate that we can identify phrases within encrypted calls with an average accuracy of 50%, and with accuracy greater than 90% for some phrases. Clearly, such an attack calls into question the efficacy of current VoIP encryption standards.