[kwlug-disc] Videoconference testing -- please help

Jason Eckert jason.eckert at gmail.com
Fri Apr 10 07:30:59 EDT 2020


Agreed - but that sort of implementation would be costlier on the systems
and network, and the commercial products out there are all about maximizing
returns and profitability.
If the open source community wanted to do it, well.... it could work if
rethought properly :D

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 2:32 AM Chris Frey <cdfrey at foursquare.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:23:45PM -0400, Hubert Chathi wrote:
> > Pretty much no video conferencing system that supports a large number of
> > participants will have end-to-end encryption.  The problem with Zoom
> > here is that they're claiming that they do.
>
> That's a fun mental puzzle.  If we used public key encryption,
> it would still be possible in theory.  Each person uploads one stream
> to the server, the server sends all streams to all users (with perhaps
> some out of band signaling for optimization).
>
> Would have to trust the symmetric key with all members of the call,
> but I think it's still possible.
>
> - Chris
>
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