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Jami: GNU end-to-end encrypted alternative to Zoom and Jitsi

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Re: Jami: GNU end-to-end encrypted alternative to Zoom and Jitsi

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Post by themodelplumber »

systemvoltage wrote: post #14

Does anyone find these names a bit weird? What happened to 80's glorious days where company and product names were super cool. - DynaMax - Ultron - Trinitron - Hypersystems - Logicore - Supra - Intertech - UniversalSystems - NationalTech - Automark - Spectra - Pentatype - PolyMatrix - MicroSpace - RotoCore Now we have things such as Flikr, Waymo, Skype, Jitsi and this thing... Jamo or Jami. :-/ Human race is regressi…

Like many things '80s, it went way "Over the Top".

(For reference, that's Foobar2000 over there rolling its eyes...)

Re: Jami: GNU end-to-end encrypted alternative to Zoom and Jitsi

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Post by craftinator »

systemvoltage wrote: post #19
egypturnash wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Jami is inspired by a Swahili word that means “community”. The name was chosen as it reflects the vision: to be a service open to all, to be community supported, and to respect the privacy of users.” - https://jami.net/help/

Why does a product name have to have a "meaning" behind it? Kodachrome was abstract.

It doesn't have to. But it can. This is an example of that.

Re: Jami: GNU end-to-end encrypted alternative to Zoom and Jitsi

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Post by divbzero »

beanjammin wrote: post #3

Interesting, I haven't tried Jami. If I am understanding it correctly it seems to provide calling features, which Zoom and other typical video conferencing type applications don't. I'll also through Jitsi out there as a very capable FLOSS alternative to Zoom. If you tried it a few years ago it's changed dramatically in the last while. It's now WebRTC based and runs in browser without any download. It's not quite end…

Can’t WebRTC support peer-to-peer video calls without running the stream through a server? I have vague recollection that it can but am not particularly familiar with the protocol.

Re: Jami: GNU end-to-end encrypted alternative to Zoom and Jitsi

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Post by divbzero »

divbzero wrote: post #24
beanjammin wrote: post #3

Interesting, I haven't tried Jami. If I am understanding it correctly it seems to provide calling features, which Zoom and other typical video conferencing type applications don't. I'll also through Jitsi out there as a very capable FLOSS alternative to Zoom. If you tried it a few years ago it's changed dramatically in the last while. It's now WebRTC based and runs in browser without any download. It's not quite end…

Can’t WebRTC support peer-to-peer video calls without running the stream through a server? I have vague recollection that it can but am not particularly familiar with the protocol.

To answer my own question: Yes, WebRTC supports peer-to-peer video calls but does require a “signaling server” to help establish and close the peer-to-peer connection. [1]

[1]: https://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/webrtc/basics/ "Getting Started With WebRTC"

Re: Jami: GNU end-to-end encrypted alternative to Zoom and Jitsi

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Post by squarefoot »

I just installed on a Debian 10 machine, then on my old Android 6.0.1 junk tablet. No problems on the PC, while the Android one always crashes when attempting to pair with the PC by pointing the camera at the QR code, and adding manually the exported account on the network hangs indefinitely on the "adding account" window.

Not a big issue since I don't carry the tablet around, just to let the developers know if they read here.

Re: Jami: GNU end-to-end encrypted alternative to Zoom and Jitsi

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Post by jachee »

systemvoltage wrote: post #19
egypturnash wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Jami is inspired by a Swahili word that means “community”. The name was chosen as it reflects the vision: to be a service open to all, to be community supported, and to respect the privacy of users.” - https://jami.net/help/

Why does a product name have to have a "meaning" behind it? Kodachrome was abstract.

Kodachrome wasn't abstract. It was Kodak's color film, and thus a pseudo-portmanteau of "Kodak" and "chroma" (i.e. color).

I'm sure there are meanings behind a lot of the other names you listed, too.

Re: Jami: GNU end-to-end encrypted alternative to Zoom and Jitsi

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Post by CiPHPerCoder »

> end-to-end encrypted

O RLY?

https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/ring-client-android/is...

https://security.stackexchange.com/a/171461/43688

I looked through their code to see where data is being encrypted/decrypted, and was unable to locate it.

Since their issue indicated they use 4096-bit RSA, I really wanted to see if they were vulnerable to Bleichenbacher's 1998 padding oracle attack.

https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/ring-project/wikis/tec...

> The SHA-1 fingerprint (160-bits) of this public certificate is the JamiId.

this-is-fine.mp4

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