Uncovering Spoken Phrases in Encrypted Voice over IP Conversations

Or why bulk encryption fails.

Charles V. Wright, Lucas Ballard, Scott E. Coull, Fabian Monrose,
Gerald M. Masson
Uncovering Spoken Phrases in Encrypted Voice over IP Conversations

From the abstract: "we show that it is possible to identify the
phrases spoken within encrypted VoIP calls when the audio is
encoded using variable bit rate codecs"

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1880022.1880029

Francois Grieu
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