Phone Systems: ageet Corporation Releases GuardVox Phone to Protect IP Calls

As the effort to do so decreases, listening in on IP communications becomes more tempting than it has ever been before. Depending on the topic of the conversation, an irreversible loss of information could have devastating consequences for businesses of all kinds, as well as government and military organizations. As going back to the old analog days to protect ourselves is not an option, the need for efficient and transparent protection against security threats such as wiretapping or even espionage is imminent.

ageet Corp. has been working closely together with Telesecret Corporation, a company founded by Phil Zimmermann to create encrypted voice and video communication solutions using the IETF standard ZRTP that he designed. As one of the leading experts in the security field, Phil Zimmermann has gained a reputation as an uncompromising guardian of privacy rights in a long legal battle to make his Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) email encryption protocol available to users worldwide. ageet Corporation has integrated Telesecret’s ZRTP library into GuardVox Phone, enabling it to offer secure call encryption in accordance with standards laid out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) based on NSA guidelines. These standards certify that the applied encryption can be used to protect information up to the top secret level.

The IP call security problems

Other encryption solutions have tried to address the IP call security problems, but none achieves the ease of use and thorough security of GuardVox Phone with Telesecret’s ZRTP implementation. While some products still cater to legacy analog calls, others offer only incomplete protection for internet calls by sending vital information in plain text or necessitating a working Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). The PGP standard which is used to send encrypted email also requires a PKI, a fact that thwarted its widespread adoption and is single-handedly responsible for the fact that 99% of all E-Mails are still sent out unencrypted. Other approaches to solve the problem are expensive, proprietary hardware solutions that are not interoperable with other secure telephony solutions. The strengths of the GuardVox ZRTP solution become obvious: it requires no PKI, can be adopted on many platforms and uses an open standard for encrypted internet calls.

ageet Corporation specializes in innovative IP telephony software solutions for desktop, mobile and web systems. ageet puts strong emphasis on efficiency and resource friendliness which makes its products perform well even on less powerful hardware such as tablets and embedded systems. Apart from the “AGEphone” (Mobile, Desktop, Business, and Gadget) series of IP phone software products and its OEM versions, the company also distributes VoIP SDKs based on the high performance microSIP stack to assist customers in creating their own telephony applications on all kinds of systems.

Software company focused on building

Telesecret Corporation is a software company focused on building and deploying encrypted telephony and mobile solutions based on the ZRTP protocol and Telesecret-created proprietary extensions. ZRTP is an open standards peer-to-peer voice over IP (VoIP) encryption protocol that has been accepted as an IETF draft that was designed and authored by Philip Zimmermann, renowned cryptographer and inventor of PGP. ZRTP removes the barriers that require the necessity of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to guarantee the security of a call.