[guardian-dev] [Guardian-internal] Fwd: Messaging Moving Forward

[Tim Prepscius]

Is it actually browser -> browser or is it browser -> web-socket-relay
-> browser?

-tim

On 7/30/13, Timur Mehrvarz <timur.mehrvarz at riseup.net> wrote:
> On 21.05.2013 22:17, Nathan of Guardian wrote:
>> On 05/18/2013 06:34 PM, David Oliver wrote:
>>
>>> Also, what about WebRTC?  That's a Google-championed effort.
>>
>> There were a few WebRTC sessions at IO. I think it is still considered
>> experimental.
>>
>
> I've played around with WebRTC in Firefox and Chrome. I've written a
> small but selfcontained RTC rendezvous ("signaling" in Google lingo)
> service. Pure data (text based chat) currently works work best in
> Firefox (22+ on the desktop; nightly 25+ on Android). Functionality is
> stable and usability is great: all you need is the browser.
>
> Because WebRTC is about direct browser-to-browser communication,
> anonymity is not what it provides. But I would like to find out what you
> think about the security being provided. WebRTC is making use of
> DTLS-SRTP keying (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5764). I was a little
> surprised to see that TCPdump is showing a constant data stream on the
> UDP port, even when no user data is being transfered.
>
> As someone else asked in the Tox.im thread: is this secure and safe to use?
>
> -Timur
>
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