Silent Phone deploys the ZRTP peer-to-peer encryption protocol which is recognized as the leading standard for secure end-to-end communication in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone call.

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To this end, he helped to create the OpenID protocol.

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Now, however, Twitter is forcing all developers, by the end of the month, over to a more recently developed protocol named Oauth.

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