Adding voip to torchat

[hhhh xhdhx]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:55 AM, hhhh xhdhx <johncalisano at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I figured the lgical thing to add to torchat would be voip .Is there any
> > move to that end , can anyone give me pointers as to probable protocols ,
> > packages that can be ported to torchat .Or how abt getting ekiga to do
> the
> > same along with zrtp .???
>
> Pretty much all VoIP protocols use UDP— which makes sense for their
> normal realtime operation.
>
> For voice over tor you'd really want some kind of push-to-talk
> moderate latency system that uses TCP. There really isn't a lot like
> that out there, but developing one wouldn't be hard.  For the audio
> coding codec2 (http://codec2.org/) would be the obvious choice right
> now— in order to keep the load on the network nice and low.
>


>
> It sure would be nice if tor had mutually authenticated peer to peer
> connections. So that every X-over-tor protocol doesn't have to invent
> some crazy binding protocol like torchat uses to mutually authenticate
> a hidden service. E.g. something to allows a hidden service key to be
> used as "caller-id" while calling another hidden service.
> ***********************************************************************
>
   What torchat does is a simple authentication ,where A connects to B &
then B connects to A , so that both are sure of the other party, I guess the
same could be done for every other authenticated peer to peer application.

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