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After this announcement, I am planning to reject meetings organised in zoom. But the problem is that it’s really good. So, is there any privacy friendly and viable alternatives to zoom? It does not have to be open source because I nearly tried all alternatives. Your experiences?

    • Thorned_Rose@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I’ve found Jitsi to be a great replacement. The only shortfall I found is that most folk don’t know about it and can be resistent to trying it.

      • dumptruckdan@artemis.camp
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        1 year ago

        I tried it on the browser on my own and it seemed to work okay at first glance. I haven’t tried the app due to the 3.8-star rating on Google Play that is actually closer to a 3-star rating when you account for the fact that half of the 5-star ratings look fake. Main complaints seemed to be sound and video quality and getting disconnected. The fact that anybody can just come into your session if they guess the room name correctly isn’t optimal either. Overall it feels janky, or maybe I am spoiled. I could be spoiled.

        • bug@lemmy.oneEnglish
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          1 year ago

          The fact that anybody can just come into your session if they guess the room name correctly isn’t optimal either.

          If you ignore the warnings about an easily-guessable name, ignore the option to use a waiting room, and ignore the suggestions to use a password, yeah.

        • shortwavesurfer@monero.town
          1·
          1 year ago

          You can set the session in lobby mode wheresomeone has to be accepted or you can require a password to join. Its not a bad app, or at least the version from fdroid.

    • privacyfalcon9899@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      When the number of participants is above 15-20, and you need to share screen, it’s not stable. So, people always complained about its quality when I sent an invitation.

  • LollerCorleone@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    I really like Jitsi Meet and use it for any video conference calls. And Signal for one on one calls with friends and family.

  • ijeff@lemdro.idEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    If you want privacy-friendly, you really do want something that’s open source. Jitsi is probably your best bet.

  • Laitinlok@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Proton Mail uses PGP which depends on which cipher both recipient and sender, sharing PGP keys are also problematic. PGP doesn’t encrypt subject line but Tutanota does. Tutanota uses AES-128 and RSA-2048 for their encryption and uses AES-128 for external encrypted email which Tutanota and Proton Mail also supports.

  • flatbield@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    For the FOSS stuff Nextcloud talk, OpenMeetings, and Briefing seem to be the other ones people have not mentioned. Not used any of them. Nextcloud seems interesting if you already use Nextcloud for other things.

    Frankly I would personally look at Jitsi Meet, or Wire. I have used Jitsi Meet a year or two ago. I did not find it as stable as Zoom on my setup. I liked it in every other way. Also it uses WebRTC in the browser which means that the browser needs to be configured to use WebRTC and some browsers have typically worked better then others. I do not think Jitsi Meet is e2ee though. I mention Wire because it may be e2ee (check). BigBlueButton is pretty well known too but I have never used it. Keep in mind not many conferencing solutions are e2ee.

    Element/Matrix is the other tech I hear people talk about a lot. Not sure it is really a meeting alternative though.

  • Laitinlok@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Tutanota first use the user password to generate an AES key using BCrypt, that AES key is then used to encrypt the private key. The encrypted private key and hashed AES key is then sent to the server, hence the server does not store nor know the private key and the hashed AES key is used to authenticate the user. It uses SHA256 for hashing, it’s safe because the hashing algorithm is one way only and not reversible, meaning you can’t convert the hash to the password but only the other way around the password can generate the hash, so even the server is compromised it doesn’t gain access to your password.