Re: VoIP security

["Champ Clark [Vistech]" <champ () bundy vistech net>]

> credit card number over the phone using her social and other sensitive
> information.  She has a VoIP router from her ISP.  The question: Are
> the VoIP packets encrypted as they go across the wire?   Or can
> someone sniffing in the right place capture all of that sensitive VoIP

        Typically,  no.  If it uses standard SIP,  H.323 or IAX2 then
it's not encrypted.  This would be a good thing to ask your VoIP 
vender.  It is possible to secure these protocols.   I wrote a 
"Asterisk" (http://www.asterisk.org) article about this.   It can be
found at http://www.softwink.com/papers.html .  This is sorta of 
outside the scope of what your asking. 

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Champ Clark III    |   Vistech Communications,Inc.   |    850-942-0388 x 101
                         http://www.vistech.net

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