Voice Encryption

[microchp]

I would like to see extensibility added to allow encryption modules or other voice modules to be added to the client.

With changes that are coming soon (dont ask me to prove this yet) there will be recordings of peoples voice chat made and maintained for an undocumented period of time. In addition to this, various countries are going to start "regulating" VoIP type communications and attempt to impose taxes on it; amongst other silly things.

I would like to mitigate that by having the option to force encryption of all voice communications and possibly even encryption of the command traffic to TeamSpeak.

I know that this is a tall request and would require help from the open source community if it were to make much progress. I can try to round up people that specialize in this area if that would help.

Would there be any possibility of encryption added to both the command and voice chat communication within teamspeak in the future?

[Peter]

The problem with encrypting voice is that it adds a significant amount of CPU work for both receiving (decoding) and sending (encoding) voice data. Baring in mind that TeamSpeak is designed to run alongside a (usually demanding) game, most users will not want to donate some of their precious FPS (frames per second) for a feature like this (for any feature even).
That being said for conferencing / chatting etc. it does not usually matter if the CPU load is at 5% or at 10%. For this usage case it might make sense to add the possibility to encrypt voice data, but since this is not currently our "main market" we will not focus on getting these kind of things done first.