[Freeswitch-users] Uncovering spoken phrases in *encrypted* VoIP conversations

[Michael Collins]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Kristian Kielhofner <kris at kriskinc.com>wrote:

> More scaremonger tactics from paper authors and journalists...
>
> This is for variable bitrate codecs only.  Weaknesses in encryption
> for non-padded VBR codecs have been known for some time.
>

Agreed. VBR is, by definition, giving away extra information, and it's been
know for a long time to do this. I'd like to see what they got out of
non-VBR encrypted streams. Still, I'm gonna check this out to see if there's
anything useful underneath the hair-on-fire claims.

-MC
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