Internet The Future Of Phone Calls?
Even as the U.S. government is embroiled in a debate over the legality of wiretapping, the fastest-growing technology for Internet calls appears to have the potential to make eavesdropping a thing of the past.
LOOK OUT BIG BROTHER, SKYPE IS HERE!
Skype, the Internet calling service recently acquired by eBay Inc., provides free voice calls and instant messaging between users. Skype calls whip around the Internet encrypted with “keys,” which essentially are very long numbers. Skype keys are 256 bits long — twice as long as the 128-bit keys used to send credit card numbers over the Internet. The security is much more than doubled — in theory, Skype’s 256-bit keys would take trillions of times longer to crack than 128-bit keys, which are themselves regarded as practically impossible to break by current means.
Swedish software guru Niklas Zennstrom co-founded Skype, a pioneering voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) company. Niklas claims to have 11 million registered users, and over 1.5 billion minutes of calls between Skype user! cnn news
This is exciting news for people who are fed up with outrageous phone charges, and privacy issues! Check out Skype’s home page for more information, and also read another story from Yahoo News about Skype.
: Internet, Niklas Zennstrom, Skype, VoIP, eavesdropping, free internet phone calls, security
: Internet, Niklas Zennstrom, Skype, VoIP, eavesdropping, free internet phone calls, security
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