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Meet DAVE: Discord’s New End-to-End Encryption for Audio & Video (discord.com)

submitted 2 months ago by morrowind@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The code is very auditable. I have not audited it myself though so I have no idea if it's actually good, but you can absolutely audit it.

EDIT: Just read through the Javascript portion, which seems incredibly anemic. Each file is like 20 to 40 lines of code max. I did notice there is a C++ folder though, I'm guessing that's where the meat and potatoes are.

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is Discord client code available?

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

kind of

If you download the client, it's just an electron app, so all of the bits written in js/css/etc are sitting right there in the client itself. People have used this to repackage it with customizations, such as webcord (nicer user experience on Linux) and others.

As for the compiled bits... well, every binary executable is open source if you're brave enough