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A look at Matrix.org’s OLM | MEGOLM encryption protocol
In this post I take a closer look on how matrix.org’s crypto protocols olm/megolm compare to the OMEMO protocol.
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I Love Free Software Day 2019
Today is I Love Free Software Day! Time to thank the developers of your favorite free software!
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Brussels Day 1 and 2
The XSF summit is over. Next will be FOSDEM.
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Unified Encrypted Payload Elements for XMPP
An envelope hiding the original message – Image by Bru-nO This is a proposal to extract the element encryption principle from OpenPGP for XMPP to make it applicable to other encryption protocols.
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Join the Fediverse!
vanitasvitae’s blog is now part of the fediverse!
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QR-Code Generator for OMEMO
I wrote a small tool that generates QR-Codes for OMEMO fingerprints.
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Future of OMEMO
OMEMO brought many new faces to XMPP. However, there is quite a lot of controversy around it. Part of it are technical discussions, others are more or less of a political nature. Let me list some of them for you.
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Summer of Code: Smack has OpenPGP Support!
I am very proud to announce, that Smack got support for OpenPGP for XMPP!
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Summer of Code: Finalizing the PR
Quick update: Only a few days are left until the last and final Evaluation Phase. I spent the week opening my pull request against Smacks master branch and adding a basic trust management implementation. Now the user is required to make decisions whether to trust a contacts key or not. However, the storage implementation is […]
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Summer of Code: First PGPainless Release!
I’m very happy and proud to announce the first alpha release of PGPainless! PGPainless 0.0.1-alpha1 is the first non-snapshot release and is available from maven central. It was an interesting experience to go through the process of creating a release and I’m looking forward to have many more releases in the future 🙂 The current […]