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There are various protocols that allow you to have privacy-enhanced chat.

Those can be either 2-party chat such as:

  • OTR
  • SIGNAL

or multiparty chat such as:

  • SIGNAL
  • (n+1)sec
  • mpOTR
  • GOTR (2013 spec and 2008 ones)

But nowadays many protocols, alongside with Instant Messaging (IM), support multi-party video and voice exchange such as Skype and Google Hangouts. What protocols exist to ensure the security properties on applications for privacy-enhanced multi-party/teleconference application?

I am asking because teleconference applications are lag-sensitive ones and there is the real-time factor as well. Also, the data flow is stream based ones instead of message-based ones so ratcheting per message - like signal does - is a no-go (because there is no message concept, to begin with).

The common key for the VoIP group can be done via exchanging special messages and running a Group Key Authentication protocol but what about forward secrecy and the transcript integrity protection messages?

Do you know any protocols that support multi-party VoIP as well (even academic purpose-oriented ones without any practical value)?

Ella Rose
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