Month: May 2017

  • Last week of GSoC Community Bonding

    This is my report for the last week of community bonding. On next Tuesday the coding phase officially begins \o/. I spent my week like I did the one before; writing tests, increasing the codecoverage of my Smack OMEMO module. Today the coverage finally reached the same level as the main codebase, meaning my PR…

  • GSoC: Second, third week of community bonding

    Hi all! This is my report for the second, as well as the first half of the third week of GSoC community bonding, which I spent again working on finalizing my OMEMO code. I dug deeper into writing test cases, mainly integration tests and I found quite a lot of small, undetectable bugs this way…

  • GSoC: First week of community bonding

    The first week of community bonding is nearly over and already it’s quite an experience for me. Me and Alameyo were very nicely welcomed by members of the igniterealtime project which really took care of making us able to jump right into the project. I spent most of the time making myself more familiar with…

  • My GSoC introduction

    Hi! My name is Paul Schaub (vanitasvitae), I’m a computer science student from Münster, Germany, I’m 23 years old and right now I’m in my 8th semester. I’m very close to getting my bachelors (undergraduate) degree with only one subject missing (Yay!). That’s why I got some spare time, which I am very happy to…

  • Using Emoji for fingerprint verification

    The messaging app Telegram recently introduced end-to-end encrypted voice calls. As most of you probably know, encryption without verification is pretty useless since there is the risk of man-in-the-middle attacks. I don’t want to get too much into details about this. The point I want to make is, that you should verify your partners fingerprint…