Nathan of Guardian:
> On 03/14/2014 03:07 PM, intrigeri wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> carol3@??? wrote (14 Mar 2014 18:04:17 GMT) :
>>>> You probbly mean pseudonymous, then, not anonymous, right?
>>
>>> no i mean anonymous, by creating new random account on every call (in
>>> this case we have to trust ostel.co - guardian project).
>>
>> Wow, interesting. Two questions, then:
>>
>> 1. Do you think ostel.co can handle it?
>
> We are definitely working to support this type of scalability and
> transient account use. It might be useful to setup an API that would
> allow the user to identity the account as a one-time use variety.
>
> Related to this, we are integrating Ostel/VoIP functionality into
> ChatSecure, and users will be generating Ostel accounts in a similar way
> to what is being proposed here.
that sounds good ...
can i find the code here?
https://github.com/guardianproject/ChatSecureAndroid
>
> Finally, Ostel.co is just our first public instance of what we hope is a
> wider set of OSTN nodes around the world. We have Iceland, Netherlands
> and Hong Kong coming online in the near future. Notes on running your
> own server are available on the wiki:
> https://dev.guardianproject.info/projects/ostel/wiki
>
>> 2. How do you handle incoming calls, then? One has to communicate
>> their temporary SIP address to their peer every time they want to
>> receive a call, or is the idea to make this easier somehow?
>>
>>> perhaps i have a error in reasoning. why you need vpn for it? for e.g.
>>> with linphone you can tunnel the traffic over tcp
>>
>> I didn't think that NAT traversal worked fine when using Tor, but
>> I would be glad to be surprised. Can a Tails system receive a call
>> over Tor (say, with Linphone, and via ostel.co)? I'd be delighted to
>> read a quick howto to see this work :)
>
> Perhaps direct IP-to-IP VoIP calling over TCP would work with Linphone
> using Onion addresses on each side? In this case, a central server would
> not be needed at all.
i also think it can work. perhaps the quality of the calls is affected a
liitle bit by using other codecs (lower bandwidth).
best regards,
carol
