Encrypted VoIP Meets Traffic Analysis 98
Der_Yak writes "Researchers from MIT, Google, UNC Chapel Hill, and Johns Hopkins published a recent paper that presents a method for detecting spoken phrases in encrypted VoIP traffic that has been encoded using variable bitrate codecs. They claim an average accuracy of 50% and as high as 90% for specific phrases."
Duh! (Score:2, Insightful)
When you want to secure something, you must think carefully about how you might be leaking information. You can't just slap some encryption on and call it a day.