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PGPainless 0.1.0 released
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash After two years and a dozen alpha versions I am very glad to announce the first stable release of PGPainless, a library that makes using OpenPGP fun again!
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Install Jitsi-Meet alongside ejabberd
Photo by Drew Beamer on Unsplash I got Jitsi Meet working with my ejabberd installation. This is how I did it. #xmpp #jitsi #jitsimeet #meeting #videoconference #conference
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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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Smack: Some more busy nights and 12 bytes of IV
Photo by Sven Mieke on Unsplash In the last months I stayed up late some nights, so I decided to add some additional features to Smack.
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Re: The Ecosystem is Moving
Moxie Marlinspike gave a talk at 36C3 that misrepresented decentralized systems. This is my opinion regarding his arguments.
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Pitfalls for OMEMO Implementations – Part 1: Inactive Devices
Person holding a magnifying glass onto a text book In this post I want to discuss, what can go wrong when implementing OMEMO encryption and how the pitfalls can be avoided.
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Closer Look at the Double Ratchet
In this post I try to explain the Double Ratchet Algorithm that drives the cryptography behind OMEMO and Signal. This is the second part of my series about the crypto behind OMEMO.
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Shaking Hands With OMEMO: X3DH Key Exchange
In this blog post I take a detailed look at how the Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange (X3DH) works. This algorithm is part of the cryptography that drives OMEMO.
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Another Step to a Google-free Life
Today I * registered an account at mailbox.org * changed my mail address to username+service@mailbox.org on all the services I use * decoupled and deleted YouTube from my Google Account Yay!