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Re:Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC... by perenzo on Monday June 15, 2020 @09:02AM (#23526840)
Well technically it is possible to avoid the signaling server, but you'll need some other channel to exchange the peers connection data. This is pretty inconvenient though. But a signal server is a rather light thing and easy to install on a location you trust: https://github.com/holtwick/briefing/tree/master/signal
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Re:Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC... by waynenilsen on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:32AM (#23527720)
> you'll need some other channel to exchange the peers connection data

Perhaps using IPFS to pin the data temporarily and share that hash between the peers?

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Re:Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC... by perenzo on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:53AM (#23527929)
That's a good idea. I don't know the internals of IPFS, but the related https://libp2p.io/ looks promising. Follow up https://github.com/holtwick/briefing/issues/52
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Re:Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC... by kodablah on Monday June 15, 2020 @12:51PM (#23529512)
I did a POC of this over a year ago [0]. Now, with better libp2p-js library, it is surely much easier/better nowadays.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/webrtc-ipfs-signaling

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Re:Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC... by saurik on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:53AM (#23527924)
If you can figure out how to share that hash, you may as well just share the offer.
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Re:Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC... by waynenilsen on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:05PM (#23530762)
Yes, serialization is the issue. URL length is technically unlimited but in practice very long urls don't work out so well
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Re:Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC... by lioeters on Monday June 15, 2020 @01:51PM (#23530523)
Thank you for making both the client and server sides of this video chat application open source.

The only missing piece it seems is the STUN/TURN server. Would you have a plan to also release it?

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Re:Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC... by perenzo on Monday June 15, 2020 @01:57PM (#23530628)
I use coturn. Find installation details here https://github.com/holtwick/briefing/blob/master/app/INSTALL...
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Re:Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC... by lioeters on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:22PM (#23531020)
Oh, I didn't see that. Thanks so much for sharing!
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