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Re:PGPfone (1995) by lozf on Saturday August 31, 2013 @02:23PM (#6307600)
Twelephone gets round that by using twitter for call set up only & transmits media peer-to-peer using WebRTC.
Re:PGPfone (1995) by vertex-four on Saturday August 31, 2013 @03:46PM (#6307848)
The issue is that behind certain NATs, WebRTC's peer-to-peer component can't work. In these situations, it needs to fall back to using an ICE/STUN server, or some other form of proxy between peers.