PFS/OTR/OMEMO encryption

[daniele-athome]

Title speaks for itself :-)
Also consider the Axolotol ratchet: https://www.whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting/
Conversations already implemented OMEMO: http://conversations.im/omemo

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https://github.com/igniterealtime/Smack/blob/4.3/documentation/extensions/omemo.md
(Future) https://github.com/igniterealtime/Smack/blob/master/documentation/extensions/omemo.md

[geileszeuch]

Maybe you should consider the whole TextSecure-V2 protocol which uses elliptic curve encryption and has several advantages over OTR.

[mimi89999]

👍

[pravi]

@daniele-athome we are looking for students to work on projects like kontalk (see https://www.loomio.org/d/59Jl3bds/private-messaging-focused-phase-2), would you mentor students to implement this feature? OMEMO support in conversations was added by a student as part of google summer of code. We can ask students to submit proposals and we can select if we are happy with the proposal. We'll also crowd fund so we can pay them like gsoc.

[daniele-athome]

Sure that would be great. I was indeed delaying PFS after implementing group chat, but we can develop those two in at the same time if another person helps me out so we can work out practical implementation of OMEMO in group chat and sort out issues about that. Please let me know what you need.

[pravi]

@daniele-athome thanks. We'll start visiting colleges and look for interested students. I'll keep you posted.