HOholtwick·Oct 13, 2020
Why not EUPL? It is probably a good choice for a European based company and has comparable features. https://github.com/holtwick/briefing/issues/75
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9 sourcesOk, I get the point. I opened a ticket to use a clearer wording: https://github.com/holtwick/briefing/issues/51 Thanks clarifying the ambiguity.
In Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC group video chatI use coturn. Find installation details here https://github.com/holtwick/briefing/blob/master/app/INSTALL...
In Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC group video chatThat's a good idea. I don't know the internals of IPFS, but the related https://libp2p.io/ looks promising. Follow up https://github.com/holtwick/briefing/issues/52
In Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC group video chatIndeed, it is a rather simple algorithm [1] But you can set any name you like, either in the input field or directly in the URL. Protected rooms, where the participants need to know a common secret, are planned to be added to the project, see [2]
[1] https://github.com/holtwick/briefing/blob/master/app/src/com...
[2] https://github.com/holtwick/briefing/issues/1
In Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC group video chatWell technically it is possible to avoid the signaling server, but you'll need some other channel to exchange the peers connection data. This is pretty inconvenient though. But a signal server is a rather light thing and easy to install on a location you trust: https://github.com/holtwick/briefing/tree/master/signal
In Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC group video chatThis is a Firefox Nightly release, correct? Current stable release is 77.0.1 Do you experience those issues with the stable release as well? If so I would like to ask you to file a bug here and add the OS version. Thanks for letting me know! https://github.com/holtwick/briefing/issues/new
In Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC group video chatI did not want to say Jitsi is bad. It is one of the best solutions around. But you still have to trust the server if e2ee is not turned on and more than 2 participants are using it [1]: "This outer layer of DTLS-SRTP encryption is removed while packets are traversing Jitsi Videobridge"
I believe it is correct to say, that WebRTC is end-to-end encrypted. What you are referring to is, if you can trust to have a direct connection to the other participant and that you can make sure she is the person she pretends to be. This layer is indeed missing and will be added [2]
I would very much appreciate your help on the project to eliminate those concerns.
[1] https://jitsi.org/security/
[2] https://github.com/holtwick/briefing/issues/1
In Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC group video chathttps://brie.fi/ng - a modern pure open source WebRTC implementation. It can even blur peoples background for visual privacy. Sources at https://github.com/holtwick/briefing/
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