On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 18:59, Mukund Sivaraman <muks@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
XMPP has features such as OTR and OMEMO, that provide end-to-end
encryption, with some effort on the user's part needed to verify.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMEMO
For completeness:
https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0384.html (OMEMO, essentially Signal-for-XMPP)
On the topic, as a long time user of Jabber/XMPP, XMPP support was good
in the instant messaging space soon after it was introduced. Proprietary
messaging apps surpassed it with ease of use and multi-media
messaging.
XMPP is also used very heavily in critical messaging - military tactical chat, for example, as well as currently being used for the largest messaging system in use in the NHS in the UK. And of course lots of games and game systems. But none of these use "stock" clients of course, which would be used by individuals or within companies. There's a few clients driving consumer re-adoption (you noted Conversations, but there are a few others), and these are in turn driving new specifications to support that space.
If you're interested in helping XMPP in the enterprise and consumer spaces, where it's certainly still behind proprietary solutions, then please come and join the party at https://xmpp.org/ - the XMPP Standards Foundation is a developer-led group of standards people, and all are very welcome.
Dave.
