How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls

Re:How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video... by topdancing on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @08:04PM (#29573619)

> Signal uses phone numbers as identifiers because it controls spam.

Signal uses phone number as identifiers because it's the easiest way to find other users. There's no other reason Signal uses phone numbers as a primary ID.

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Re:How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video... by johnisgood on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @08:46PM (#29573882)

I wonder if I ever needed contact discovery, as in, actual contact discovery, such as: you start typing foo, then you get "foobar, "foobaz", and so forth. It definitely complicates things.

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Re:How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video... by askvictor on Thursday December 16, 2021 @04:28AM (#29576553)

This. Your phone number is your social graph.

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