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[Pete Chown]

Donald Ramsbottom wrote:

> Is it snake oil or a real "secure mobile"?

It has the potential to be secure.  IPsec is a publicly reviewed IETF
standard that is thought to be secure when implemented properly.  At the
same time it would be very easy to make a version with a backdoor.

> IPSec is a security technology that defines authentication and encryption
> at the device level - layer 3 - allowing the phone to be used for secure
> peer-to-peer connections. IPv6 in combination with IPSec should make the
> device as secure as any PC on a fixed network. 

Theoretically IPsec is required if you are going to have a standards-
compliant IPv6 implementation.  This requirement hasn't been acted on by
everyone.  Last time I checked, Linux was one of the offenders -- it
supports IPsec and IPv6, but not both at the same time.

I am pleased, though, to see IPv6 devices coming into more common use. 
I set my home machine up to do IPv6 (as well as IPv4, obviously) but
sometimes it gets lonely... :-)

-- 
Pete