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Voice security and privacy: Confidentiality protection, today solutions and upcoming technologies and standards

Abstract

The changes of telecommunication market, from telco monopolist of the 80's to multiple operators working across different countries, along with the diffusion of new technologies like VoIP completely changed the rules and the needs of law enforcement that are required to intercept communications, and of private citizen that want to protect their privacy. An overview analysis of voice protection and voice interception technologies available now and in the near future, used and usable by private and by governments will be shown. Technical, political and jurisdictional issues about interception and protection systems will be presented. Zphone, VPN, voice security standards, passive interception technologies, tactical interception technologies, satellite related issue, ETSI lawful interception rules, national european and north american laws, the chinese threat are part of the information that will be presented. A new "open standard" secure telephony protocol, based on ZRTP and developed jointly with Philip Zimmermann, will be introduced and presented compared to other available technologies.

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