Re: [lp-ca-on] article related to federation from Open Whisper Systems

[Bob Jonkman]

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Is the Google's Allo interoperable with OWS Signal? How about What's App?

You were asking for a handy chart on secure systems in another thread.
There was some discussion in the !Fediverse (which has a !LibrePlanet
group, as I recall).




http://www.titus-stahl.de/blog/2016/05/15/comparing-encrypted-messengers/

> The Electronic Frontier Foundation used to have a quite nice 
> instant messenger scorecard that compared messenger services 
> regarding their privacy properties. As they did not include some 
> interesting projects (but included lots of non-free-software apps 
> that are not an option for me anyway), I made the table below that 
> refers to a subjective selection of interesting encrypted
> messaging projects and that only includes end-to-end encrypted
> services and – except WhatsApp which is included for reference
> purposes – only Free Software.

!Fediverse message: http://quitter.se/notice/5681252

- --Bob.

On 2016-05-19 10:22 AM, Rudolf Olah wrote:
> and now moxie and the Open Whisper Systems team have followed up by
> including Signal's encryption in Google's latest proprietary chat
> app, Allo: https://whispersystems.org/blog/allo
> 
> -rudolf -- Securely sent with Tutanota. Claim your encrypted
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> 
> 10. May 2016 16:29 by address@hidden:
> 
> 
>> there's an interesting article from Open Whisper Systems since
>> we've talked about federation before: > 
>> https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving
>> 
>> Some food for thought as I'm trying to get Jabber/XMPP working
>> with federation support (and probably food for thought for Blaise
>> since he's used MediaGoblin?)
>> 
>>> cannibalizing a federated application-layerprotocol into a
>>> centralized service is almost a sure recipe for a successful
>>> consumer product today.
>> It's
>>> what Slack did with IRC, what Facebook did with email, and what
>>> WhatsApp has done with XMPP.  In eachcase, the federated
>>> service is stuck in time, while the centralized service is able
>>> to iterate into themodern world and beyond.
>> 
>> -rudolf -- Securely sent with Tutanota. Claim your encrypted
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