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Phil Zimmerman, the man who brought us PGP, has recently released a beta version of Zfone, a VoIP client, complete with his latest encryption software.

Zimmermann, the man who released the PGP e-mail encryption program to the world in 1991 — only to face an abortive criminal prosecution from the government — has been trying for 10 years to give the world easy-to-use software to cloak internet phone calls.

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The open-source software manages cryptographic handshakes invisibly, and encrypts and decrypts voice calls as the traffic leaves and enters the computer. Operation is simple, and users don’t have to agree in advance on an encryption key or type out long passcodes to make it work.

So if you’re paranoid that the NSA might be monitoring your illicit calls to your foreign handler grandmother, take Zfone for a spin.

[via Wired]

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