TechRepublic reports on Ring, the next generation of the SFLphone project produced by Canadian-based open-source software firm Savoir-faire Linux aimed at giving users a secure VoIP solution. “Ring uses OpenDHT to connect users instead of a centralized SIP server system such as Asterisk,” the report states, which allows Ring “to bypass the server-client methodology by passing along user information to each other.” There’s a growing need for secure communications and “existing solutions are not secure,” the report states, noting services such as Skype and its competitor WhatsApp received poor scores in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Secure Messaging Scorecard.
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