Secure phones from VectroTel?

[mis at seiden.com]

another contender (or could-be contender):

http://www.cryptophone.de/products/CPG10/index.html

(open source and built by people like rop gonggrijp and barry wels)

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:45:15PM -0400, John Ioannidis wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:19:38AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > 
> > Following the links from a /. story about a secure(?) mobile phone
> > VectroTel in Switzerland is selling, I came across the fact that this
> > firm sells a full line of encrypted phones.
> > 
> > http://www.vectrotel.ch/
> > 
> 
> Too little, too late.  What are they doing, running a V.32bis modem
> over the GSM analog channel? That would account for the worse voice
> quality and the delays in the spec.
> 
> A friend showed me yesterday his EVDO-enabled, WinCE handheld, which
> he was using to make phone calls over Skype (not that Skype is secure,
> but that's another story).
> 
> /ji
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