New encryption product locks down IP calls
New encryption product locks down IP calls
- By William Jackson
- Aug 23, 2001
SecurePhone, an IP telephony encryption product from Information Security Corp. of Deerfield, Ill., secures voice communications from a PC over the Internet or private networks.
The software does full-duplex encryption with strong authentication and comes in two flavors.
SecurePhone Lite is a free download from the company's Web site, at
www.infoseccorp.com. It uses the 40-bit Data Encryption Standard algorithm and a 512-bit key exchange mechanism, and it works over low-bandwidth connections at 3 Kbps.
SecurePhone Pro does Triple DES encryption, elliptic curve cryptography and up to 2,048-bit Diffie-Hellman key exchange encryption. It provides better voice quality with voice compression at 10 Kbps. The Pro software starts at $595 per unit.
Both programs have an address book, speed dial buttons and a customizable interface. They run on any Pentium PC with Microsoft Windows 98, NT or 2000 and 1.5M of free storage. The PC must have a sound card with full-duplex drivers, a microphone, speakers and a headset or handset. A network connection or a 28.8-Kbps or faster modem also is required.
Contact Information Security at 800-203-5563.
About the Author
William Jackson is a Maryland-based freelance writer.