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Progress on PGPainless Development

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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.

July 20, 2021
OMEMO Specification Sprint

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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!

March 10, 2020
How to Implement a XEP for Smack.

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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

February 25, 2020
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.

March 10, 2019
Unified Encrypted Payload Elements for XMPP

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This is a proposal to extract the element encryption principle from OpenPGP for XMPP to make it applicable to other encryption protocols.

January 17, 2019
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.

September 7, 2018