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by barbegal 2244 days ago
You can signal in more ways than this: email, QR code or any method that can transfer a small amount of data [1]. You do need to think of the security of this channel though as it forms the basis of authenticating the other party through the fingerprint attribute in the signaled SDP payload [2].

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebRTC_API/...

[2] https://rtcweb-wg.github.io/security-arch/

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I did it via WhatsApp and copying data from TextAreas the first time I played around with it.