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Re:How to create a video call application with WebRTC by perenzo on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:19AM (#23524693)
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.

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