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Thanks for the detailed comment! I'd be happy to continue the discussion, is there an official IRC/XMPP bridged chan for me to join your discussions? Or should
by southerntofu 5y ago
Thanks for the detailed comment! I'd be happy to continue the discussion, is there an official IRC/XMPP bridged chan for me to join your discussions? Or should i go through any gateway and hope for it to work (matrix XMPP gateway is not really famous, admin-operated matterbridge is far more reliable).
I understand the appeal of CRDTs for some use-cases (in fact, for many more we could develop), but isn't implementation of permissions on top quite a big enterprise? Isn't that what the Matrix project is about? How would your mitigations compare to Matrix, beyond optimizing for arbitrary large messages (files)?
> It is perfectly true that solutions that are explicitely designed to handle these threats
Please make it more explicit on the homepage. Strong personal opinion: i like it when projects make their design tradeoffs explicit and link to alternatives involving other tradeoffs ; it helps me to avoid reading detailed specifications and source code to understand whether the tool is fitted to my usecase.
> our next project that involves mailbox storage
That's pretty cool! Are you aware of existing solutions in this space and failed attempts at producing new ones? leap.se/bitmask.net had some interesting takes but had to lower their goals due to limited human resources, but there's still people very interested in that question over there. Mailbox encryption as implemented by riseup/posteo (source code available, private key unlocked with passphrase at login time) is also very interesting and i wish that approach was used with other protocols as well (eg. XMPP) though it raises some interesting questions in regards to allow/denylisting.
I wish you the best of luck, and certainly hope to read more from you. Don't hesitate to post around in seemingly-unrelated venues to gather critical feedback on your design before implementation.