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US Android users can try out the free RedPhone app from Whisper Systems for end-to-end encrypted phone calls:

http://whispersys.com/

Check out TextSecure whilst you're there if you want to protect your SMS storage and transmission with public key encryption.

Is this open source? How do we know it's encrypted?

They say they're going to make the source available soon:

http://www.whispersys.com/support.html#8

Moxie Marlinspike is the guy behind it, and he has a pretty good reputation. But yeah, you might want to wait until the source is available and compile your own.

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