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minus-squarebennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up45arrow-down1·11 months agoThat was the time when all the apps were standard XMPP. It didn’t have proper encryption back then. WhatsApp is still XMPP nowadays, but excluding federation and non-standard implementation on Meta servers and so on
minus-squarewildbus8979@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up16·11 months ago It didn’t have proper encryption back then. OTR predates all the commercial platforms adopting XMPP, so that’s not exactly true.
minus-squareSapphironZA@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·11 months agoWas OTR a protocol where the server had zero knowledge of the unencrypted content? Or was it basically like SSL?
minus-squarewildbus8979@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agoOTR is E2E, it’s the direct predecessor of OMEMO/Signal on which they are both based.
minus-squarewildbus8979@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·11 months agoFun fact, iMessage is also XMPP based!
minus-squarelars@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·11 months agoMy brother in Christ do you know what fun means
minus-squarewildbus8979@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoFederated XMPP is fun yes, defederated XMPP is, indeed, not fun. Also I’m no Christ’s brother, thanks. Beelzebub maybe.
That was the time when all the apps were standard XMPP. It didn’t have proper encryption back then. WhatsApp is still XMPP nowadays, but excluding federation and non-standard implementation on Meta servers and so on
OTR predates all the commercial platforms adopting XMPP, so that’s not exactly true.
Was OTR a protocol where the server had zero knowledge of the unencrypted content? Or was it basically like SSL?
OTR is E2E, it’s the direct predecessor of OMEMO/Signal on which they are both based.
Fun fact, iMessage is also XMPP based!
My brother in Christ do you know what fun means
Federated XMPP is fun yes, defederated XMPP is, indeed, not fun.
Also I’m no Christ’s brother, thanks. Beelzebub maybe.