A couple of weeks ago, the Chrome team announced an interesting Intent to Experiment on the blink-dev list about an API to do some custom processing on top of WebRTC. The intent comes with an explainer document written by Harald Alvestrand which shows the basic API usage. As I mentioned in my last post, this is the […]
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Does your video call have End-to-End Encryption? Probably not..
Time for another opinionated post. This time on… end-to-end encryption (e2ee). Zoom apparently claims it supports e2ee while it can not satisfy that promise. Is WebRTC any better? Zoom does not have End to End Encryption Let’s get to the bottom of things fast: Boo Zoom! I reviewed how Zoom’s implements their web client last […]
Not a Guide to SDP Munging
SDP has been a frequent topic, both here on webrtcHacks as well as in the discussion about the standard itself. Modifying the SDP in arcane ways is referred to as SDP munging. This post gives an introduction into what SDP munging is, why its done and why it should not be done. This is not […]
Is everyone switching to Unified Plan?
Review of Chrome’s migration to WebRTC’s Unified Plan, how false metrics may have misguided this effort, and what that means moving forward.
How Zoom’s web client avoids using WebRTC (DataChannel Update)
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on October 23, 2018. Zoom recently started using WebRTC’s DataChannels so we have added some new details at the end in the DataChannels section. Zoom has a web client that allows a participant to join meetings without downloading their app. Chris Koehncke was excited to see how this […]
