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Private Communication

Difference between VoIP and PSTN Systems

October 6, 2010

Internet telephone systems are not quite a new technology. This technology has already been around for many years but it initially faced a lot of issues such as dropped calls and low voice quality. However, with a well-planned VoIP system calls can be made already via the internet with reliability and high voice quality. VoIP [...]

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Secure Communication – Skype

June 4, 2010

Developed by Skype Technologies S.A., Skype is a peer-to-peer Voice over IP (VoIP) communication platform. Based on peer-to-peer network protocols, no centralized servers are used during call or file transfer.
Skype has implemented 256 bit AES encrypt to insure the privacy of it users conversations.  This level of real time encrypt virtually eliminated the possibility of [...]

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Public and Private Encryption Keys

March 11, 2010

Encryption is a mystery to most.  Defined as:  
“The transformation of information into anunreadable string of apparently random numbers, letters, and symbols using a key is encryption.  Algorithms using two keys, one  for encrypting and the other for decrypting are commonly used with the number of bits (16, 32, 64…1028,2056) determining the strength of the encryption.”
It appears [...]

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