On 03.04.2017 08:09, Remko Tronçon wrote:
> On 26 March 2017 at 15:12, Andreas Straub <a...@strb.org
> <mailto:a...@strb.org>> wrote:
>     So at that point, I have to ask myself, if we're already in this for
>     the long haul, why not actually do it right, i.e. explicit server
>     support?
> 
> Although involving the server in this would make things a bit easier on
> clients, I'm also concerned it brings more practical problems to rely on
> server availability than it solves. 
> ... it still makes clients rely on their server
> administrators to upgrade and enable this feature, which they may have
> less reason to for a purely end-to-end feature. Besides, for end-to-end
> encryption, relying on the server as little as possible sounds
> preferrable (although it shouldn't take away any security theoretically).

Server side OMEMO support does not need to be mandatory to implement.

- Florian

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