[VOIPSEC] VoIP Attack : How feasible

[Simon Horne]

Michael

I totally agree, with this statement.

At 05:50 AM 29/07/2006, Michael Slavitch wrote:
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>Systems designers forget that most of the business world is made up of
>small and medium sized companies, 500 or so people is the mean, and
>these places don't have time or energy for fancy deployments or IPSEC
>or whatever, they want something that solves a problem, can be
>maintained by people with a high school level of education, and 'just
>works'.   Microsoft mastered this with Windows NT, which is why Novell
>is now a pale shadow and Microsoft dominates corporate networking.
>Remember, it's all about money.  We work for salesmen.

VPN's have been around for 10+ years and they do work very well but have 
never achieved widespread deployment. People in their hundreds of millions 
have chosen something they just download and install and it just works. 
SKYPE   My point is after nearly a decade of standards based VoIP 
development there appears to be no clear functional method for NAT 
traversal within SIP (outside of possibly ICE and that has not achieved 
widespread deployment). The need for a VPN is not by choice but by necessity.

Simon