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Phone GD USA NSA SCIP ← STE
The US Government uses VIPer for conversations up to the level of TOP SECRET.
It replaces the Secure Telephone Unit (STE), which was phased
out between 2013 and 2014. The US President started using vIPer during the
course of 2013.
The telephone set has the look and feel of a regular IP-phone, but is somewhat
larger. It has a simple user interface and can be upgraded in the field, by
installing aftermarket firmware upgrades. E.g., the R6.1 upgrade of
June 2019 provided Advance Cryptographic Capabilities (ACC) and a simplified
EKMS procedure [6].
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vIPer is also used by NATO and its allies for conversations up to the level
of SECRET. By 2019, more than 60,000 vIPer phones had been deployed [6].
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Presidential communication
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US President Barack Obama
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The photograph below shows US President Barack Obama 1 using
vIPer to make a secure telephone call. The photograph was published by
the manufacturer - General Dynamics –
on Twitter on 27 August 2013,
suggesting that the US President was one of its first users [4].
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Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
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vIPer can be used to send secure fax messages, by connecting an external gateway
to the red dataport at the rear of the unit. The 90si Secure Fax Gateway shown
in the image on the right was approved for this application.
By adding a GFS-910 Fax Switcher,
the same fax machine can also be used
for receiving non-secure fax messages, without swapping cables.
Both items were approved for use with vIPer.
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