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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