Jeff Weinstein writes:
Any possibility that Netscape might build in some form of cryptography? I realize ITAR rules would make this problematic, but perhaps some sort of out-of-country deal for putting in the hooks for PGPhone could be done.
The internet phone software is coming from one of the companies that we are acquiring. This is one obvious application of SSL that I will be looking into after the merger is complete.
1) I strongly suggest that SSL is *not* in its current form the right technology, because internet phone type tools probably use UDP, not TCP. 2) I strongly hope that Netscape tries to move the product towards standards based mechanisms like the IETF's RTP protocol, which are in widespread use, rather than pushing yet more proprietary systems. Proprietary is bad in this instance. I believe, by the way, that several existing RTP implementations have encryption in them. Perry