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Encrypt Audio/Video Hangouts #2

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infogulch opened this issue Jun 10, 2013 · 1 comment

infogulch commented Jun 10, 2013

It would be really cool if this could encrypt hangout audio and video before passing it to google.

I'm not sure how viable this would be, and any number of things could break it.

Possible problems:

Can't intercept media
Google re-encodes video after getting to their servers
Thumbnails are probably resized before video gets to the client, breaking encryption

I found this paper: Compression Independent Reversible Encryption for Privacy in Video Surveillance, which looks promising for problems 2 and 3.

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infogulch commented Jun 11, 2013

Oh and there's also a bandwidth problem, namely, can JS handle the huge encryption bandwidth?

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