Hey, just wondering what the possibility is for future support of secure connections for SIP phones, as this is a bit of a roadblock for me as I have a hardware SIP phone and find it a lot less painful to use than any softphone I’ve ever tried on desktop or Android.
My current provider offers SIP over TLS + SRTP for the actual voice traffic. While I understand that the call is eventually handed off to the insecure PSTN, encryption of the traffic traveling over the public internet is still a pretty strong preference for me.
I’m basically just looking to understand if this is a 0% probability, possibly maybe in the next 5 years probability, or something which could conceivably happen soon.
One additional bit of context is that I’m mostly looking to maybe jump ship from my current provider due to poor SMS/MMS support. I’m much more satisfied with their voice service, and while being able to do voice over XMPP and potentially not have to use warty SIP softphones is a big plus, I’m already happy doing 90% of my voice calling on a dedicated hardware SIP phone.
If we ever move to supporting SIP directly, it will include TLS support. Right now JMP does not really support SIP at all except that we leave a “back door” open where you can log in to (one of) our carriers directly on their SIP server.
We’re more likely to provide an easier to set up SIP->puppet XMPP style gateway or something like that, which would have the same benefits and you can setup today with a bit of asterisk tinkering. Or something with https://sip.cheogram.com/ or maybe software for non-SIP hardphones.
In general we know that some % of the customer base prefers hardphones and we do like to support this use case, but I wouldn’t want to commit to a specific version of the future for this. Will we have a way for you to use a hard phone with more encryption in the next 5 years? Probably. But there’s nothing in motion today that I can point to.
