PERC stands for Privacy Enhanced RTP Conferencing.

PERC is a proposed IETF draft that allows hop-by-hop and end-to-end security guarantees simultaneously.

This type of a scheme is useful in group sessions where the media server (SFU) used to route the media is considered un-trusted by the participants of the session. The way it works is by using two separate encryption keys – one for end-to-end privacy between the participants of the session and the other for hop-by-hop.

PERC has been a term used in the past, prior to the use of a standardized E2EE solution in WebRTC

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