Hello all, We are two undergraduate students, Kostis Andrikopoulos and Dimitris Kolotouros, at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) [0]. As part of our diploma theses we plan to implement the multi-party OTR protocol [1]. Our direct supervisor is cryptography PhD student Dionysis Zindros (University of Athens [2]), and we work in a group led by professors of cryptography Aris Pagourtzis (NTUA) and Aggelos Kiayias (University of Athens).
We understand OTR is a tool of freedom of speech. As the users who need it most are investigative journalists and activists who need to communicate securely leveraging all of end-to-end encryption, authentication, deniability and forward secrecy, we believe the multi-party version of OTR is a critical tool for those who usually work in groups. We would like to solicit your feedback on multi-party OTR. Is there interest in it from the side of developers and users? Has there been any implementation work outside the theoretical framework linked above? What would be the right approach to start with this implementation? Thank you in advance. Kind regards, Kostis Andrikopoulos Dimitris Kolotouros [0] http://ece.ntua.gr/ [1] https://www.cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/mpotr.pdf [2] http://di.uoa.gr/eng _______________________________________________ OTR-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-dev
