[smc-discuss] [X-post] conversation adds multi device asynchronous encryption to xmpp

[Pirate Praveen]

Learn more about it at http://conversations.im/omemo/

It is propsed as an extention of xmpp messaging standard.

On 2015, ആഗസ്റ്റ് 23 4:11:22 PM IST, Pirate Praveen <praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
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>Conversations android xmpp app has released 1.6.0 version today with
>support for axolotr key exchange protocol (its called omemo). This
>feature was developed as part of google summer of code. This brings
>better mobile support for end to end encryption in xmpp. Earlier
>options were otr and openpgp, both had short comings. OTR works well
>only when both contacts are online and OpenPGP did not provide 'perfect
>forward secrecy' (anyone stealing your key will not be able to decrypt
>your past messages). With omemo, both this shortcomings are overcome.
>This protocol was first introduced in TextSecure. Now with xmpp chat in
>diaspora (diasp.in and poddery.com has already activated this feature)
>finding contacts is also easy. So we have a good competitor to facebook
>chat/google hangouts/whats app. For a drop-in replacement to WhatsApp,
>try kontalk, which implements contact auto discovery on top of xmpp. We
>hope to integrate kontalk with diaspora in future, so you could talk to
>kontalk, 
> xmpp
>and diaspora network using a single account (power of Free Standards
>and Free Software).
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