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posted by on Wednesday January 04 2017, @12:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the a-pocket-full-of-cryptonite dept.

Good news for those wanting an open instant messaging / chat room / blogging platform without big data keeping the logs..

The Matrix project has officially started the cross-platform beta of end-to-end encryption in Matrix, with matrix-js-sdk, matrix-android-sdk and matrix-ios-sdk all supporting e2e via the Olm and Megolm cryptographic ratchets. Meanwhile, NCC Group have publicly released their security assessment of the underlying libolm library.

As per a recent blog entry: "So far the beta has gone well in parts: the core Olm/Megolm crypto library has held up well with no bugfixes at all required since the audit (yay!). However, we've hit a lot of different edge cases in the wild where devices can fail to share their outbound session ratchet state to other devices present in the room."

E2E is currently implemented in the cross-platform riot chat client if anyone wants to try it out.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 04 2017, @01:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 04 2017, @01:46PM (#449349)

    Reminds me of XMPP. :(

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 04 2017, @08:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 04 2017, @08:07PM (#449496)

    Jabber was awesome back in the day when everybody was writing their own XMPP client for fun. There was no money to be had in XMPP of course because XMPP was obscure free crap for pimply unwashed geeks. Then a bunch of greedy fucking assholes made a shiity bug-filled XMPP client and called it whaaaaaazzzzzzzup and DUDE suddenly XMPP is the most popular messaging app OF ALL TIME, BRO. $19.3 billion dollas mothafucka!! WhatsApp!!!!!!!!!!