Re:How to create a video call application with WebRTC
by perenzo on Monday June 15, 2020 @12:39AM
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https://brie.fi/ng - a modern pure open source WebRTC implementation. It can even blur peoples background for visual privacy. Sources at https://github.com/holtwick/briefing/
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Re:How to create a video call application with WebRTC
by perenzo on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:19AM
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I added an own entry here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523830
Learn more about the details: https://brie.fi/ng#help Also see https://webrtc-security.github.io/
WebRTC is end-to-end encrypted by default. There is a signaling server that helps establishing the connections between users in a room, but after that the communication is encrypted. Also those TURN and STUN servers are only required for technical reasons to get peer-to-peer working. So no content is ever passed unencrypted.
That's the difference to other services like Zoom and Jitsi, where a server in the middle is receiving the video streams unencrypted and then redistributes. Although Jitsi is adding encryption support for that as well soon.