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End-to-End Encrypted Chat that YOU Control: Hosting XMPP (Jabber) with Prosody
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When I see E2EE and XMPP mentioned, I think of this blog post by Soatok, outlining some very odd cryptographic choices in XMPP + OMEMO: https://soatok.blog/2024/08/04/against-xmppomemo/
I would very much like to see a richer playing field than just Signal for private messaging, but it's a tough nut to crack. For exactly which aspect that turns me away from XMPP for E2EE, I think this nails it down:
When the competition is Signal, these sorts of details matter a lot.
That article is highly misleading.
A good response can be found here: https://www.moparisthebest.com/against-silos-signal/
This is also a great article! Thanks for the link.
One cool point in favor of XMPP is that in a public setting (MUCs), there's community. Moparisbest is an active participant in several of the MUCs that I'm in. Very cool!