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Progress on PGPainless Development
Not much time has passed since I last wrote about my progress on the PGPainless library. However, I feel like its time for an update.
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OMEMO Specification Sprint
Photo by Sebastian Pena Lambarri on Unsplash The past weekend some members of the XMPP community gathered in Düsseldorf to work on the next iteration of the OMEMO End to End Encryption Specification. All of us agree that the result – version 0.4 of XEP-0384 – is a huge step forward and better than ever!
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How to Implement a XEP for Smack.
Photo by NASA on Unsplash Many (80+ and counting) XMPP Extension Protocols (XEPs) are already implemented in Smack. Today I want to bring you along with me and add one more 🙂 #xmpp #smack #protocol #development
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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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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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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.