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The audit details and whitepaper details are far beyond my capabilities to understand. Can anyone with knowledge of the field tell us about the findings? If you would be so kind, please and thank you.
Good on them for getting an audit and making the code publicly auditable, but I really would like to hear an opinion from some folks who are more involved in cryptography on whether this is Discord being genuine and doing the right thing, or is it Discord trying to use Public Relations and weasel words to make it seem like they're doing the right thing.
It's just hard to trust a private company's motives sometimes, but that doesn't mean they're not capable of doing the right thing. Thanks to anyone who can give some input on this.
My very cursory glance at the paper is that basically they are encrypting live calls. Basically they are doing what zoom has been doing since the pandemic.
From what I remember, in Zoom the meeting's host needs to enable E2EE, it's not automatic, and it disables a lot of Zoom's features while also limiting the amount of participants.