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.