One of WebRTC’s great features is its mandated strong encryption. Encryption mechanisms are built-in, meaning developers don’t (often) need to deal with the details. However, these easy, built-in encryption mechanisms assume you have: 1) media is communicated peer-to-peer and 2) a secure signaling channel setup. Most group-calling services make use of a media server device, […]
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FaceTime finally faces WebRTC – implementation deep dive
Deep dive analysis on how FaceTime for Web uses WebRTC. Philipp “Fippo” Hancke uses webrtc-internals, Wireshark, and reviews the JavaScript implementation to expose Apple’s implementation details.
True End-to-End Encryption with WebRTC Insertable Streams
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 […]
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 […]