3 We need to find out how VoIP can be usable in the context of Tails.
5 Preliminary testing showed
6 [OnionCat](http://www.cypherpunk.at/onioncat/) +
7 [Mumble](http://mumble.sourceforge.net/) to be a working and
8 relatively easy to setup Tor-enabled VoIP solution; the 1/2s - 1s
9 delay is only slightly annoying.
11 As it was pointed out in the ["Adding voip to torchat"
12 thread](http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Dec-2010/msg00143.html) on
13 or-talk, OnionCat before r555 provides no bidirectional
14 authentication: the caller
15 has (limited) certainty to be talking to the call receiver, but the
16 reverse is not true. So this shall be used in combination with zRTP or
17 similar, unless the new unidirectional mode is good enough.
24 It looks like Linphone 3.5.1 or newer has everything Tails need, so it
25 would be good to [[!taglink todo/test]] it (probably with OnionCat).
27 The new OnionCat unidirectional mode (default since r555) should be
33 Encryption and authentication
34 -----------------------------
36 **Note**: these are relatively old notes that should be updated and
39 On the UI side, something similar to Pidgin's OTR would be perfect.
43 - IETF chose DTLS+SRTP over zRTP
44 - a PKI is needed to authenticate peers :/
48 <http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/09/sip-communicators-summer-of-code.html>
52 <http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-kaplan-sip-four-oh-00.txt>
56 User-friendly peer authentication with a voice-based "short
57 authentication string". How strong is this?
64 [[!rfc 4353]]: three-peers SIP conferencing, using one of them as a
69 [[!rfc 4575]]: N-peers SIP conference rooms, using one of the peers as
70 a central mixer. One can see who is saying what.
72 ### Mixer-to-client Audio Level Indication
74 - [Latest IETF draft](http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ivov-avt-slic-03)
77 A mechanism for RTP-level mixers in audio conferences to deliver
78 information about the audio level of the individual participants
79 => helps detecting where bad noise comes from.
84 **Last updated**: 20121122
89 - in Debian Squeeze and Wheezy
90 - supposed to support zRTP... some day:
91 * [their TODO item](https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335594)
93 update](http://mail.gnome.org/archives/ekiga-devel-list/2009-April/msg00036.html)
95 - supports IPv6 in 3.3.x (Debian experimental only, as of 20121129)
96 but not before ([[!debbug 375056]], [upstream
97 bug](https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331041))
102 - [homepage](http://live.gnome.org/Empathy)
103 - SIP account => insists to connect to SIP server => impossible to
104 setup a p2p voice call between onioncat IPv6 addresses, at least
105 without registering SIP accounts.
106 - cannot connect to a XMPP server running behind a hidden service (2.30.3-3)
107 - Link-local XMPP connection manager ([[!debpkg telepathy-salut]]
108 0.5.0-3) does not support voice calls
113 - [[!wikipedia Jingle (protocol) desc="wikipedia page"]]
114 - Google Talk's XMPP extension
119 - (previously known as SIP Communicator)
120 - [homepage](http://jitsi.org/), [[!wikipedia Jitsi desc="wikipedia page"]]
121 - LGPL, written in Java
122 - not in Debian, but trying to ([[!debbug 627362 desc="ITP"]],
123 [[!debbug 695588 desc="RFS"]]); they ship binary Debian packages.
124 The binary packages used to bundle more than 100 JAR files which
125 probably made packaging it for Debian a nightmare, but apparently
126 things are different nowadays. [Packaging
127 source](http://java.net/projects/jitsi/sources/svn/show/trunk/resources/install/debian)
129 - supports IPv6, SIP, XMPP
130 - supports zRTP for key negotiation, SRTP for voice encryption, and
131 TLS for signaling encryption
132 - supports audio SIP and XMPP conference calls; what conferencing protocol?
133 - supports OTR for text IM
134 - reported to work over Tor
139 - [homepage](http://www.linphone.org/), [[!wikipedia Linphone desc="wikipedia page"]]
140 - in Debian Squeeze and Wheezy
141 - supports SIP over TCP and TLS
143 - supports zRTP since version 3.5.1. Unfortunately, this is only available in
144 Debian experimental at the moment, see [[!debbug 671815]].
145 - test results: 5-10s lag but one of us was using a really bad
147 - audio conferencing since 3.5.0
152 - [homepage](http://mumble.sourceforge.net/), [[!wikipedia
153 Mumble_(software) desc="wikipedia page"]]
155 - primary engineering effort targeted at low-latency
156 - successfully tested in combination with OnionCat
157 - TLS and OCB-AES128; seems to depend on a PKI for peer authentication
163 - [homepage](http://www.sflphone.org/), [[!wikipedia
164 SFLphone desc="wikipedia page"]]
165 - in Debian Squeeze and Wheezy
167 - Multiple audio conferencing
169 - doesn't seem to support IPv6:
170 * [task #2863](https://projects.savoirfairelinux.com/issues/2863)
175 - [homepage](http://www.twinklephone.com/)
176 - in Debian Squeeze but it has been **removed from Wheezy**: *ROM; dead
177 upstream, obsolete components (KDE3/ QT3/ libccrtp1)*.
178 - was included in Incognito
179 - supports SIP, zRTP and SRTP
180 - IPv6 is on the roadmap
181 - Qt application, but does not depend on KDE libs
182 - no release between 20090225 and 20110429 => asked on 20110510 for
183 their plans; no answer so far
184 - it's the [client advised by GNU Telephony](http://www.gnutelephony.org/index.php/Secure_Call)
189 - [homepage](http://zfone.com/)
190 - allows to use zRTP on other VoIP software
191 - supposed to work with Ekiga
192 - some packages in Debian: libzrtpcpp-1.6-0, is that enough?
193 - last release was a public beta, out in March 2009
194 - license seems inadequate: according to [[!wikipedia Zfone]],
195 "only the libZRTP SDK libraries are provided under the AGPL. The
196 parts of Zfone that are not part of the libZRTP SDK libraries are
197 not licensed under the AGPL or any other open source license.
198 Although the source code of those components is published for peer
199 review, they remain proprietary. The Zfone proprietary license also
200 contains a time bomb provision."
205 - [setting up a phone line by using TOR hidden services](http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=YBQ9vLZk)
210 * The [SIP clients page](https://we.riseup.net/debian/sip-clients) on
211 Riseup's Debian Grimoire.
212 * [[!tor_bug 5700]]: Make/modify VoIP applications to work better on
214 * [[!tor_bug 5699]]: Make Tor able to handle VoIP applications people
216 * [Whonix about Voip](https://sourceforge.net/p/whonix/wiki/Voip/)
218 [[!tag priority/normal]]