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Re:Proof of concept: end-to-end encryption in Jitsi Meet by shawnz on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:42AM (#22855745)
I see a lot of blocky patterns in the encrypted video streams... isn't that indicative of encryption weaknesses?
Re:Proof of concept: end-to-end encryption in Jitsi Meet by saghul on Monday April 13, 2020 @10:22AM (#22856071)
We’ve kept the entire packet header unencrypted so the effect is more visible. The final implementation will just leave the minimum required bytes (1 or 2) of the header unencrypted.
Re:Proof of concept: end-to-end encryption in Jitsi Meet by shawnz on Monday April 13, 2020 @10:51AM (#22856336)
Interesting, thanks for the information. And also thank you for working on this important technology.
Re:Proof of concept: end-to-end encryption in Jitsi Meet by philcrump on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:49AM (#22855792)
I think, I haven't looked at their implementation; they'll be an artifact of piping the encrypted/mis-decrypted stream into a video decoder. A lot of video coding techniques use variable-size blocks to describe changes to areas of the image, so it's reasonable that piping pseudo-random data into the decoder would produce some noticeable block shapes.
Re:Proof of concept: end-to-end encryption in Jitsi Meet by jaywalk on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:50AM (#22855796)
I think it's more a side effect of how video codecs try to make sense of bad data.