Luxury UK phone maker Vertu has partnered with secure communication provider Silent Circle for end-to-end voice and text encryption worthy of its designer product.

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The company was co-founded by Mike Janke, a former Navy SEAL, and Phil Zimmermann, the creator of Pretty Good Privacy ( PGP) and other Internet encryption for voice and data.

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To cloak the voice calls, the NSA uses two independent layers of encryption, one at the VoIP layer, and the other at the VPN layer.

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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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