GNU SIP Witch is a telephony server that focuses on enabling secure peer to peer media connections. GNU SIP Witch avoids centralized decryption and minimizes overhead by eliminating the need for media processing. This also enables Video capable endpoints to communicate without requiring server support and eliminates the need for using patent restricted media codecs. Releases of GNU SIP Witch can be found at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sipwitch/.
Version 0.6.0 - January 2010 This release focuses on development of GNU SIP Witch as both a new kind of desktop VoIP integration service and as part of our goal to replace Skype, both at the client and as an Internet service, with entirely free software. This release includes integration of standard user accounts as sip users to enable one to more easily setup and deploy sipwitch in desktop roles by requiring minimal configuration effort. Account integration also benefits more traditional sipwitch server deployment use cases as well. When speaking of replacing Skype, we do so by offering integration with standard clients using existing published and standardized protocols. We also do so by replacing the need for a backend centralized service provider by creating a bottom-up participatory network of user deployed sipwitch servers tied together by DNS alone. It is in interconnecting this network that sipwitch is used, as well as empowering users to find new ways to experiment with VoIP much like gstreamer does for desktop media. We are also looking for help with further testing of secure distributed key VoIP solutions built around sipwitch, the GNU ZRTP stack, and secure free software user agents such as Twinkle and SIP Communicator. If you wish to contribute to the further development of this GNU package, feel free to introduce yourself on the developers mailing list, sipwitch-de...@gnu.org. _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
