Re: [Linphone-developers] ZRTP support for oRTP - Linphone

[Alastair Johnson]

Me! Most of the time it isn't needed, but occasionally secure file transfer 
support would be _very_ useful. I don't recall ever wishing I had video 
support though.

I suppose it depends on whether you see linphone as a pure VoIP client, or a 
more general SIP client with instant messaging and presence support. We 
already have support for presence and text instant messages. File transfer is 
part of that family of extensions, but isn't currently supported. Whatever 
features we have I would like a secured option to be available.

The only argument I can think of against including file transfer support is 
bloat, but you can argue the same about video support, especially on devices 
that can't do video. We get around that by making it a compile time option - 
if you don't need it you don't have to have it.

On Wednesday 29 June 2011, Maxim Podbereznyy wrote:
> Secure file transfer. Who needs this under voip client?
> 
> 29.06.2011 14:33 пользователь "Earl" <address@hidden> написал:
> > Who needs telecommunications?
> > Letters have worked fine since a very long time.
> > 
> > On 6/29/2011 9:54 AM, Maxim Podbereznyy wrote:
> >> who needs this?
> >> 
> >> 29.06.2011 1:23 пользователь "Earl" <address@hidden
> >> 
> >> <mailto:address@hidden>> написал:
> >> > Dear Gunnar, dear Simon,
> >> > 
> >> > Gunnar you make a good point, thanks for your post.
> >> > 
> >> > One other desirable thing would be secure file transfer.
> >> > 
> >> > Simon, the fellow behind anti-sip has written some proprietary code
> >> > to do secure file transfer. Werner knows some details about this.
> >> > In my opinion, as long as Linphone is always getting better, why not
> >> > add secure file transfer at some point in the future?