Apart from being open-sourced, Jitsi benefited from endorsements by a few highly-regarded names in the security community.
In March, a privacy-focused net web client Tor tweeted about the product as an alternative to Zoom.
If you want an alternative to Zoom: try Jitsi Meet.
Later, ina security conference, a lot of people saw Snowden using Jitsi to deliver a talk.
The product suddenly exploded during the pandemic.
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Later, he spun off the project into an app and kept building it for desktop.
Apart from being open-sourced Jitsis ease of use helped it gain more users.
While the open-sourced version isfree-to-usefor everyone.
Its parent company,88offers a paid version with features such as transcription and meeting history.
The company learned that all kinds of people started to use video conferencing products.
However, the pandemic has popularized the companys product.
The last decade was an indicator of people moving towards remote work.
This situation has just put us into the fast track mode.
Security
The next challenge for the company is to introduce end-to-end encryption for calls.
The service already offers end-to-end encryption one-on-one calls and plenty of other security measures.
We provide different levels of security for different needs.
So primarily, we needed to educate people about the options they have.
He said that end-to-end encryption for a call with multiple people is challenging to develop.
When they have the legitimate key, the video stream would look normal.
you’re free to see that in a demo video below.
Now, this is easy to execute when there are two or three people on the call.
But puts a lot of load on the server for calls with multiple people.
The idea is to encrypt frames rather than connections.
For instance, the Italy-based classroom collaboration platform WeSchool has built some features on top of Jitsis open-sourced version.
Rocket Chat, a free and open-source enterprise team chat solution also uses Jitsi for video conferencing.
That’s one heck of a mixed bag.
He likes to say “Bleh.
That’s one heck of a mixed bag.
He likes to say “Bleh.”
