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Subject: RE: A proposal for secure videoconferencing and video messaging o ver the Internet
From: Greg Rose (ggrqualcomm.com)
Date: Wed Jul 26 2000 - 07:04:27 CDT

At 06:50 00/07/26 -0400, Chip Mefford wrote:
>I work with isdn based VTC stuff all the time, I think that faking
>the far side would be trivial given a pool of decent acting, some good
>voice samples, a good idea of who to fake and some decent make-up people.

I think many people are overlooking a far more pervasive threat. James'
message, and indeed the subject line, says "secure". To be secure you must
have privacy. A man in the middle can see and listen to everything, and be
a faithful relay, without any more technology needed than IP forwarding.

The authentication is needed to be sure that you are talking *directly* to
the other party, not only to be sure who that party is.

Greg.

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