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Re:Does your video call have End-to-End Encryption? Probably... by chronogram on Thursday April 02, 2020 @07:11AM (#22757829)
How is this explanation not adequate though? https://medium.com/@wireapp/we-do-use-variable-bit-rate-vbr-...

There's also the possible chance that AES is cracked without us knowing.

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Re:Does your video call have End-to-End Encryption? Probably... by JshWright on Thursday April 02, 2020 @08:35AM (#22758250)
"Cracking AES" and recovering meaningful information from a VBR stream are very, very different things.
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