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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 11:47 pm    Post subject: Security Reply with quote

How secure is a net meeting?
How secure can one make it?
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:00 am    Post subject: Re: Security Reply with quote

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:47:31 -0000, "Newbie" <noidea@nospam.com>
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How secure is a net meeting?

Depends if the man in the middle has a packet sniffer and capture
system on whichever route your packets happen to move over the
internet. And realtime decryption tools in the case of an encrypted
data conference. And the ability to determine packets are H323 packets
and in the case of a VPN, that all commincations when decrypted match
the requirements above. So, pretty secure. About as much as a phone
call - do you worry about them ?

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How secure can one make it?

Easy - dont use it if you are worried.
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 6:49 am    Post subject: Re: Security Reply with quote

Newbie wrote:
Quote:
How secure is a net meeting?


Calls made with "secure" setting would be difficult to intercept and
decipher as they are encrypted. Secure calls are data only though.

Calls made without the secure setting would be vulnerable to protocol
sniffiing and interpretation ( both the data and audio/video).

Calls generally are point to point so that the sniffer would have to have
access to either the network at one end or the other or some path between



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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 3:27 pm    Post subject: Re: Security Reply with quote

Thanks
"Brian Sullivan MVP" <brians@WORMTIREDmeetingbywire.com> wrote in message
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Quote:
Newbie wrote:
How secure is a net meeting?


Calls made with "secure" setting would be difficult to intercept and
decipher as they are encrypted. Secure calls are data only though.

Calls made without the secure setting would be vulnerable to protocol
sniffiing and interpretation ( both the data and audio/video).

Calls generally are point to point so that the sniffer would have to have
access to either the network at one end or the other or some path between



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Brian Sullivan
Meeting by Wire ( http://www.meetingbywire.com)
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Is your PC protected? --
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/default.asp

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