BorderWare Licenses Phil Zimmerman’s Zfone, Signs OEM Deal With Mitel

IP security solution provider BorderWare Technologies Inc. has signed a deal to license Zfone VoIP security software from Phil Zimmerman, inventor of the popular Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) cryptographic privacy and authentication program popularized in the 1990s.

Zfone is effectively a PGP solution for VoIP, said Jeff Carr, vice president of the SIP solutions group at BorderWare. “Phil applied same algorithms for PGP to VoIP and SIP,” said Carr. “That allows us to encrypt the RTP media stream from phone-to-phone, server-to-server, or whatever. And it does it seamlessly, so end user doesn’t have to do anything.”

In the BorderWare solution, the Zfone software will reside on BorderWare’s SIPassure security gateway at the edge of the network, said Carr. “It allows us to create federated model for VoIP,” said Carr. “You could have a company with 10 remote offices, and by encrypting with Zfone, it let’s those offices call each other securely and without having to do VPNs or tunnels.”

Carr said BorderWare believes Zfone will become the leading method for securing and federating VoIP communications. There are other reference drafts for securing VoIP being discussed within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IEFT), he said, but BorderWare thinks Zfone is the best option, and it has the name of respected security expert Zimmerman behind it.

In other news from BorderWare, the company has agreed to allow Mitel Networks Corp. to embed its SIPassure voice security gateway into the Mitel 3600 hosted key system.

BorderWare Technologies Inc. www.borderware.com
Mitel Networks Corp. www.mitel.com

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