Thanks Peter, I had missed the later draft-miller-xmpp-e2e somehow in my poking at links.
One question is how do you accomplish encryption of messages that are published through PEP or Pub-Sub? Seems that the draft-miller specifically prohibits that (section 8)? Mat On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]>wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/13/12 4:49 PM, mat henshall wrote: > > We have an application that needs to be able to encrypt and sign > > messages and IQ stanza's that contain custom elements 'end to end' > > from one client to another, possibly across multiple federated > > services. > > > > Looking at RFC 3923, ther seems to be very little practical > > application of this specification. > > > > Is there any reason? > > > > Should I ignore this? If so what would the community suggest? > > We've tried 5+ times to build end-to-end encryption. We've failed each > time. > > 1. PGP (XEP-0027) - never widely adopted, who has PGP keys? > > 2. SMIME+CPIM (RFC 3923) - checking off a security box for the IETF > > 3. xmlenc (never documented) - might be used somewhere, but those > people aren't talking > > 4. ESessions (XEP-0116) - implemented once, no other adoption > > 5. XTLS (draft-meyer-xmpp-e2e-encryption) - experimental, didn't move > forward > > At this point I think there are other solutions under discussion: > > 6. OTR - http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ > > 7. XMPP e2e - draft-miller-xmpp-e2e > > I sure hope we'll settle on one of those before the heat death of the > universe. Your feedback is welcome. :) > > Peter > > - -- > Peter Saint-Andre > https://stpeter.im/ > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlCi9cEACgkQNL8k5A2w/vy+ygCfYVRu0YZBMdwyDP30h1keLurc > 5wwAoItpAnu7E4OiLZraazOpWwnKx+dV > =PkuA > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > JDev mailing list > Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > -- Mat Henshall Founder and CEO, Square Connect, Inc. San Jose, CA www.squareconnect.com cell: 650.814.7585
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