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Simple voice security protocol

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Ahmed Serhrouchni,

Nicolas RouhanaAuthors Info & Claims

IWCMC '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Wireless communications and mobile computing

Pages 367 - 372

https://doi.org/10.1145/1143549.1143622

Published: 03 July 2006 Publication History

Abstract

The public telephone network has been evolving from manually switching wires carrying analog encoded voice to an automatically switched grid of copper-wired, fiber optical and wireless mobile connectivity carrying digitally encoded voice, image and data. The evolution of the information technology yields to a converged data and voice network based on IP technology. VoIP emerged and it is taking a large part of the telephony market nowadays. However, the IP network presents security threats to both data and voice packets. To ensure a secure voice network, the security services and mechanisms are defined and the security protocols are created. But, the existing security solutions are related to each network infrastructure. Also, the existing public telephone network does not provide such a service. This paper describes the Simple Voice Security Protocol that provides a secure end-to-end voice communication with an abstraction of the underlying infrastructure.

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Raval GPal A(2008)VoIProtectProceedings of the 2008 Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia10.1109/ISM.2008.60(412-417)Online publication date: 15-Dec-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ISM.2008.60

Index Terms

Simple voice security protocol
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
2. Computer systems organization
  1. Real-time systems

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IWCMC '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Wireless communications and mobile computing

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DOI:10.1145/1143549

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NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan
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Lago-Fernández JGil-Castiñeira FGonzález-Castaño FRomán-Portabales A(2014)A new approach to authenticating and encrypting Voice over Internet Protocol communicationsSoftware—Practice & Experience10.1002/spe.217544:5(593-619)Online publication date: 1-May-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/spe.2175
Raval GPal A(2008)VoIProtectProceedings of the 2008 Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia10.1109/ISM.2008.60(412-417)Online publication date: 15-Dec-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ISM.2008.60

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