Making Your First Secure Call

The only prerequisites for making your first private / encrypted phone call, is:

 

You and your colleague are now prepared to communicate with secure and private voice and text chat.

 

To call your colleague

 

  1. Type your colleagues SIP address in the KeyPad tab or enter their information in the Contacts tab.
    1. From the KeyPad tab, type their SIP address and press the call   button in the controls area.

    2. Or, from the Contacts tab, once you've added them to your contact list, simply double click on their name. If they are online, a green dot  will appear next to their name.

  2. You are now talking over the network with a normal Voice over IP (VOIP) call. Notice the green highlighted box in the Call Center / Conference Center area. This indicates that the call is connected and is in normal VOIP mode.

     

    Now let's encrypt the call.

  3. In the Secured Call Area, click the Auto-Key button

  4. The Auto-Key window will open, requiring you to enter a password.  If you have not already told your colleague the password, do so now. 

     

  5. After the password is entered, click the Send button:

  6. Your colleague will see a slightly different Auto-Key window:

  7. Your colleague must enter the password and then accept the Auto-Key by clicking the receive button .

  8. In a moment,
    1. a single-session key will have been generated,
    2. transferred to your colleague, and
    3. activated in both your myKryptofon and your colleague’s myKryptofon.
  9. Your Secured Call Area will now look like this:

     

    Your colleague's Secured Call Area will look the same.
  10. When you now look at the Call Center / Conference Center area, you will notice the red highlighted box in the Call Center / Conference Center area. The red box indicates the call is connected and is private and secure, utilizing AES 256-bit encryption.