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