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OMEMO is an alternative encryption extension for XMPP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMEMO?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMEMO?wprov=sfti1
by digianarchist 5y ago
OMEMO is an alternative encryption extension for XMPP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMEMO?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMEMO?wprov=sfti1
- kseistrup 5y agoAnd while OTR always caused more problems and frustrations than it solved, OMEMO just works for me — even in a multi-sevice setup. After OMEMO became available in the XMPP clients that I use, I never looked back to OTR.
- upofadown 5y agoOMEMO is based on ideas from the protocol used by Signal Messenger. Signal Messenger is based on ideas from OTR. Learning about OTR is the easiest way to understand the basic concepts behind the others because everyone just refers to the OTR writeup either explicitly or implicitly . So this new writeup is still potentially valuable. The ideas: * Forward secrecy for messaging. * Deniability through forgeablility.