Shalimar 6 years ago
The rocky road to #OMEMO by default

source: https://gultsch.de/omemo_by_default.html

Moxie #Marlinspike, in his 2016 propaganda piece ignorantly bashing #XMPP, had one valid point: Enabling end-to-end encryption in a homogenous environment is easier than introducing it in a heterogenous one like #Jabber. Nobody is denying that. However, if something is hard to achieve there are two possible approaches: Either try your best and don’t give up, or put your head in the sand and create yet...
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  • Shalimar 6 years ago
    Yes and it sucks how they destroy the freedom on our internet 😰😩🤕😵
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  • Mukt 6 years ago
    XMPP is the chat technology that nearly everyone started with: Google, Facebook, and the ilk. With time they limited the otherwise excellent protocol to create 'walled gardens' in language of Stallman. Today, you cannot chat from google with other xmpp's even though the underlying protocol is the same.
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  • Shalimar 6 years ago
    OTR only works if both are online. For Omemo both must be online only once for key exchange. After that you can send and store messages encrypted on the xmpp server. So the recipient can be offline with omemo.
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  • Trebuchet 6 years ago
    I know it off-topic, but which are the benefits of using OMEMO instead of another extension that enables encryption like OTR?
    I've never understood it.
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