Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack
by Arathorn on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:35PM
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Matrix signs all of its messages to avoid homeserver providers tampering with message history. Actual encryption however requires E2E encryption, which is in the wings via our "Olm" Axolotl implementation (http://matrix.org/git/olm). Progress can be tracked at https://matrix.org/jira/browse/SPEC-162. So I don't think you should reject Matrix on trust issues quite yet (although if you're really worried you should certainly wait for E2E to land).
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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack
by lewisl9029 on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @08:09PM
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Glad to see there's been progress on this front! The lack of E2E encryption is literally the last thing holding me back from building apps with Matrix. Can't wait to give it a try! =)
Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack
by zanny on Thursday March 17, 2016 @12:07AM
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Axolotl has a well defined message structure using established crypto functions. All of them, for example, except Curve25519 are in Crypto++. You can probably fairly easily bake your own, albeit I'd use the olm from Matrix and just make theirs work well first.