July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
12h 59m
English
There are some encryption options available for FreeSWITCH. You can encrypt the signaling (that is, the SIP messages), the media (that is, the audio in the RTP stream), or both.
TLS (Transport Layer Security) encrypts everything over the TCP connection; this has the downside that jitter or delays due to TCP can occur. UDP is generally preferred for RTP and using TLSV1 has some additional traffic overhead.
ZRTP has the advantage that it allows for end-to-end encryption without pre-exchanging keys or certificates but is a bit more complex to set up, especially for some clients. ZRTP is a protocol that was co-designed by Phil Zimmermann, the same individual who created PGP encryption. More information can ...
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