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CounterPath Gets Pretty Good Privacy With ZFone |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Tuesday, 10 April 2007 |
SIP softphone developer, CounterPath, has teamed up with PGP (Pretty
Good Privacy) founder Phil Zimmermann to integrated better security
into the eyeBeam and X-Lite softphones.
Zimmermann's security and privacy solution known as Zfone will become an option in the CounterPath softphones. The agreement adds a new level of security to CounterPath's VoIP
softphone thanks to the Zfone media encryption.
using a protocol called ZRTP the system avoids the need for a cumbersome PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) to achive security between two peer-to-peer callers.
CounterPath, which provides softphones for some big service providers and vendors such as Cisco, Lucent, AT&T, British Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, as well as offering its own free downloadable softphone will significantly increase VoIP security levels for
its customers and end users.
Enterprises, service providers
and infrastructure manufacturers deploying these softphones will
benefit from protection from security threats such as Spam,
Denial-of-Service attacks, eavesdropping, spying and wiretapping, while
enjoying the same level of security and convenience that they have come
to expect from email.
"As communications-over-IP proliferates, there is increased concern
over security of information, especially in enterprise environments
where incidences of corporate espionage are becoming more prevalent,"
said Donovan Jones, President and COO of CounterPath.
"We expect this
collaboration to positively impact the commercial viability of
softphones and play an important role in how corporations protect their
intellectual property."
"The ZRTP protocol turns CounterPath's popular soft VoIP clients
into serious secure telephones," commented Phil Zimmermann.
"With Zfone
built into X-Lite and eyeBeam, they will now be secure telephones for
the masses, and will be welcomed into the ever-growing interoperable
ZRTP user community."
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