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3 transsip telephony toolkit
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7 transsip is a toolkit for creating a decentralized network for strongly
8 encrypted, privacy-preserving voice-over-IP telecommunication.
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18 Release: 2012-xx-xx Web: http://transsip.org
20 The aim of transsip is to provide free, open source utilities for decentralized,
21 privacy-preserving voice-over-IP communication, that is independant of untrusted
22 and centralized third parties. Also, by the use of strong encryption, it puts
23 and end to unauthorized listeners.
25 Why transsip [1]? There are a few available voice-over-IP solutions out there
26 such as Skype [2]. However, most of them are proprietary, so that we are not
27 able to know if there are hidden backdoors / LI interfaces included, or use
28 a weak encryption or no encryption at all. And as you see from Skype's analysis,
29 there cannot come anything good from that software. We do not only want to blame
30 Skype, but there's lots of such crap out there that cannot be trusted. Also,
31 some of the existing solutions route voice traffic through their private servers
32 and use these data for other purposes. Therefore our software closes this gap of
33 an open source solution to preserve users privacy.
35 The transsip toolkit is an open source project covered by the GNU General
36 Public License. For any questions or feedback about transsip you are welcome
37 to leave us a message to <workgroup@transsip.org> or to our mailing list
38 at <transsip@googlegroups.com> (Note: you have to register first). This
39 project is purely non-commercial and will always stay that way!
41 Warning: this software is an experimental prototype intended for researchers.
42 Use at your own risk. Have a look at our FAQ [3] for answering your questions.
43 Furthermore, we have a development blog [4] where we sometimes drop some
44 interesting things or news for the outside world! A public repository of the old
45 stable releases can be found here [5].
47 [1] http://transsip.org/
48 [2] http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-biondi/bh-eu-06-biondi-up.pdf
49 [3] http://transsip.org/faq.html
50 [4] http://dev.transsip.org/
51 [5] http://pub.transsip.org/