At 11:25 AM 1/27/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:23:15AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:

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The versions of all the secure phones I've evaluated needed this feature: a minimal answering machine. With just the ability to record IPs of

Pretty hard to do if people are using dialup. Or even dsl, unless they run a linux box they don't ever reboot -- although I've found my dsl ip changing sometimes on it's own, and with no rhyme or reason.

Merely notifying me that someone called is useful. It wouldn't require rocket science to recognize an entire class C address as a friend. And remember this proposal is fully back compatible with earlier versions of a sec phone. If you wanted to mess with the protocol, you could obviously add an identifier exchange component. I am not familiar with SpeakFreely's protocol so I don't know if it can be extended without breaking compatability.