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webrtcH4cKS: ~ How Janus Battled libFuzzer and Won (Alessandro Toppi)

Posted by Alessandro Toppi on March 6, 2019
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Thanks to work initiated by Google Project Zero, fuzzing has become a popular topic within WebRTC since late last year.  It was clear WebRTC was lacking in this area. However, the community has shown its strength by giving this topic an immense amount of focus and resolving many issues.  In a previous post, we showed how to break the Janus Server RTCP parser. The Meetecho team behind Janus did not take that lightly. They got to the bottom of what turned out to be quite a big project. In this post Alessandro Toppi of Meetecho will walk us through how they fixed this problem and built an automated process to help make sure it doesn’t happen again. ...  Continue reading

webrtcH4cKS: ~ Let’s get better at fuzzing in 2019 – here’s how

Posted by Philipp Hancke on December 14, 2018
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Fuzzing is a Quality Assurance and security testing technique that provides unexpected, often random data to a program input to try to break it. Natalie Silvanovich from Google’s Project Zero team has had quite some fun fuzzing various different RTP implementations recently.

She found vulnerabilities in:

In a nutshell, she found a bunch of vulnerabilities just by throwing unexpected input at parsers. The range of applications which were vulnerable to this shows that the WebRTC/VoIP community does not yet have a process for doing this work ourselves. Meanwhile, the WebRTC folks at Google will have to improve their processes as well. ...  Continue reading

webrtcH4cKS: ~ Breaking Point: WebRTC SFU Load Testing (Alex Gouaillard)

Posted by Alex Gouaillard on October 18, 2018
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If you plan to have multiple participants in your WebRTC calls then you will probably end up using a Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU).  Capacity planning for SFU’s can be difficult – there are estimates to be made for where they should be placed, how much bandwidth they will consume, and what kind of servers you need.

To help network architects and WebRTC engineers make some of these decisions, webrtcHacks contributor Dr. Alex Gouaillard and his team at CoSMo Software put together a load test suite to measure load vs. video quality. They published their results for all of the major open source WebRTC SFU’s. This suite based is the Karoshi Interoperability Testing Engine (KITE) Google funded and uses on webrtc.org to show interoperability status. The CoSMo team also developed a machine learning based video quality assessment framework optimized for real time communications scenarios. ...  Continue reading

webrtcH4cKS: ~ Slack Does WebRTC Video – Here’s How (Gustavo Garcia)

Posted by Gustavo Garcia on December 15, 2016
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Slack is an über popular and fast growing communications tool that has a ton of integrations with various WebRTC services. Slack acquired a WebRTC company a year ago and launched its own audio conferencing service earlier this year which we analyzed here and here. Earlier this week they launched video. Does this work the same? Are there any tricks we can learn from their implementation? Long time WebRTC expert and webrtcHacks guest author Gustavo Garica takes a deeper dive into Slack’s new video conferencing feature below to see what’s going on under the hood. ...  Continue reading

webrtcH4cKS: ~ Is Slack’s WebRTC Really Slacking? (Yoshimasa Iwase)

Posted by Yoshimasa Iwase on March 24, 2016
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Earlier this month Fippo published a post analyzing Slack’s new WebRTC implementation. He did not have direct access or a team account to do a thorough deep dive – not to mention he is supposed to be taking some off this month. That left many with some open questions? Is there more to the TURN network? How does multi-party calling work? How exactly is Slack using the Janus gateway? Fortunately WebRTC has an awesomely active and capable community that quickly picked up the slack (pun intended). ...  Continue reading

webrtcH4cKS: ~ What is a WebRTC Gateway anyway? (Lorenzo Miniero)

Posted by Victor Pascual on March 19, 2014
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As I mentioned in my ‘WebRTC meets telecom’ article a couple of weeks ago, at Quobis we’re currently involved in 30+ WebRTC field trials/POCs which involve in one way or another a telco network. In most cases service providers are trying to provide WebRTC-based access to their existing/legacy infrastructure and services (fortunately, in some cases it’s not limited to do only that). To achieve all this, one of the pieces they need to deploy is a WebRTC Gateway. But, what is a WebRTC Gateway anyway? A year ago I had the chance to provide a first answer during the Kamailio World Conference 2013 (see my presentation WebRTC and VoIP: bridging the gap) but, since Lorenzo Miniero has recently released an open source, modular and general purpose WebRTC gateway called Janus, I thought it would be great to get him to share his experience here. ...  Continue reading