Jitsi An Alternative to Skype

Jitsi is state-of-the art open-source video conferencing software that you can self-host or freely use on-line.

You don’t have to download anything. Just go to the Meet Jitsi site and begin an on-line conversation.

Note that WebRTC  today does not provide away of conducting multiparty conversations with end-to-end encryption. As a result: when talking on meet.jit.si your stream is encrypted on the network but decrypted on the machine that hosts the bridge.

However, Jitsi supports the OTR encryption protocol. OTR stands for Off-the-Record Messaging and once you’ve set it up (i.e. clicked on that padlock icon in a chat window and verified the identity of your contact) it allows you to make sure that no one other than you two can read your messages, not even your service provider.