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Re:Project Chess: How U.S. Snoops On Your Skype by ooorlllyyy on Thursday June 20, 2013 @12:14PM (#5912924)
Could you point me to any software packages that use XMPP/Jingle with ZRTP?

Also, do you know how the key distribution is managed with ZRTP?

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Re:Project Chess: How U.S. Snoops On Your Skype by shmerl on Thursday June 20, 2013 @12:36PM (#5913039)
Unfortunately I don't know any other clients besides Jitsi, that work with ZRTP (it doesn't mean there aren't any, I just didn't find them).

Pidgin/libpurple don't support ZRTP yet, as well as Telepathy, which means all major clients based on them don't support it either (such as KDE Telepathy or Empathy for example).

There are long standing bugs about it, but nothing seems to be moving:

https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11221

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29904

See also: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16891

About ZRTP itself, see for example: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/telephony/9780321437341...

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Re:Project Chess: How U.S. Snoops On Your Skype by ooorlllyyy on Thursday June 20, 2013 @01:33PM (#5913396)
That's very unfortunate. I really wish that stuff like this would take a greater priority.
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Re:Project Chess: How U.S. Snoops On Your Skype by shmerl on Thursday June 20, 2013 @01:57PM (#5913638)
May be latest concerns about being prism'd by the Big Brother will boost this development.
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