People may find this very interesting..... the Pro Audio Spectrum 16
soundboard can play and record sound at the same time; as far as I know,
this is the only commercially available board on the market that will do
this. (Commercially available is important, because it means that
people would be able to purchase said board cheaply, or perhaps
alreadydy have.)
So for roughly $200 US, and a little software, it should be possible to
put together something that would do encrypted voice communications over
the network. Is there any interest in developing some sort of standard
protocol and software to do encrypted, compressed voice communications
over TCP/IP?
I can think some obvious design constraints right away; it should be
device independent, which means it needs to be able to support multiple
sampling rates, and negotiate sampling rates, in case one side as a
limited range of sampling rates to choose from. It should support both
multiple private and public key encryption algorithms, as well as
multiple choicese of compression technologies. We'd probably want to
have a core set of algorithms that everyone would be expected to
support, for the sake of interoperability, and allow for people to
experment with more powerful encryption/compression techniquese.
And finally, for obvious reasons, at least one implementation should be
developed in a non-COCOM country. :-)
Is this something that people would be interested in working on?
- Ted
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