Zimmerman set to release encryption program Zfone for windows

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Jayanta Bhattacharya , New Delhi: May 22 2006

Made Popular May 22 2006

Today, Philip Zimmerman is planning to release Zfone, the free VoIP encryption program for Windows that he earlier released for Macintosh and Linux users. First, let’s see what makes Zfone different from other encryption programs. Zfone actually...

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User Jun 17 2006

I tried to install Zfone twice (WinXP) but it always failed with blue screens. Also, Zfone is for non-Asterix SIP users and not for any other client like MSN, Yahoo etc. Configuring SIP VOIP clients is cumbersome and this is one of the main reasons why most people are using non-SIP VOIP such as Skype, MSN etc. Therefore Zfone will only be used by geeks (like me) and possibly corporate environments where a knowing adminstrator sets the systems, but I can’t really see a future in the mass market for Zfone.

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Jayanta Bhattacharya instablogs.com Jun 19 2006

New Delhi, India

User,

You are right! There is indeed no mass market for a complicated and cumbersome tool like Zfone. Besides, what Zfone is offering is neither unique nor exclusive. Such a tool can be easily made for PSTN conversation encryption.

I don’t understand what the hype is all about. Nonetheless, ’privacy protection’ is an attractive selling point. What do you say?

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