Gruveo, more secure skype alternative?
Eugen Leitl
eugen at leitl.org
Wed Jul 23 03:13:28 PDT 2014
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:24:22AM -0400, unixninja92 wrote:
> Recently found Gruveo[1]. Allows easy video and audio calls similar to
> cryptocat. Unfortunately not open source and makes no mention of being
> audited. Otherwise looks very interesting and promising. It tries to use
> P2P to make calls, and if it fails, then it will go through their servers.
> Uses WebRTC for end to end encrypted audio and video chat. They claim they
> don't keep any logs that could identify users.
>
> So the question is, is this an NSA honey pot or something that might
> actually be trustworthy? It seems at least a bit more secure/trustworthy
> than skype to me.
RetroShare has quite good P2P audio. It's not properly audited though,
caveat emptor.
> [1] https://www.gruveo.com/
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