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Bug 757029 - Implement OMEMO for end-to-end encryption
Implement OMEMO for end-to-end encryption
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: General
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-10-23 17:45 UTC by Bjoern
Modified: 2018-05-22 19:05 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Bjoern 2015-10-23 17:45:20 UTC 
It looks like OTR will never be implemented for Empathy. But two years after Snowden end-to-end encryption is really a basic requirement for every secure chat program. A few weeks ago I read about a promising protocol called OMEMO which seems to overcome all shortcomings of OTR and GnuPG with respect to instant messaging.

Do you think this would be a option for Empathy to finally support end-to-end encryption?

More information:
http://conversations.im/omemo/
http://conversations.im/xeps/multi-end.html
http://conversations.im/xeps/omemo-filetransfer.html
Comment 1 Tong Hui 2016-09-24 15:42:18 UTC 
I think the developer may reject it too, due to lack of man power...

But I am interesting in this, I use Conversations app in my android phone.
Comment 2 Tobias Mueller 2017-01-29 21:40:43 UTC 
Is there a libomemo to be linked to from C?
Comment 3 h.tulk 2017-02-04 10:01:45 UTC 
This seems to be what you are looking for, right?: https://github.com/gkdr/libomemo

It is used for a Pidgin OMEMO plugin.
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 19:05:10 UTC 
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