Gilmore writes:

Anyone interested in beating him to the net with something that would compress voice (or voicemail) in realtime on a 486 or a SPARC?

I used to build voice scramblers, but mostly in hardware using a Psuedo noise source. It wirked pretty good, but had to compress the bandwidth down to about 2kHz. Thus the reason why it sounds like talking in a tunnel. Has anyone done a feasability study on whether of not a 486 or Sparc station can do this in real time? It would seem to me that Voice mail systems should incorperate this in their system, thus scrambling the messages unless a access code can be used to retrieve it. JD