Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : libmesode Version : 0.9.1-2017.03.23 Upstream Author : https://github.com/boothj5/libmesode * URL : https://github.com/boothj5/libmesode * License : (GPLv3) Programming Lang: (C) Description : Library for writing XMPP clients - fork of libstrophe for extra TLS functionality
Currently, the 'profanity' XMPP client is built against libstrophe, which does work perfectly fine in practice. This build, however, will not allow a user to connect to a server with a self-signed SSL certificate, as libstrophe offers no way to manually verify and allow an SSL certificate. This is a big issue for small personal servers who'd rather not go through that hassle, or more importantly, for anyone running their server as an onion service. Despite onion services not requiring SSL due to the nature of Tor's encryption, nearly all XMPP clients will refuse to connect to a server without SSL encryption, forcing to use a self-signed one (most CA authorities will not work with a .onion domain). Libmesode will allow clients to be built against it and will give an option to manually allow self-signed certificates, an option already available in the more popular XMPP clients (pidgin, gajim).
