I am looking to use the XMPP service as a form of 'broadcast push' to
authenticated users of the app...

ie when content changes on the backend the server would post a message
to a group chat

front-end clients would be listening (I guess via strophe.js) to
particular group chats

This seems more efficient than the Channel API where I'd have to
maintain a channel per user, even though there are no user-specific
messages that need to be sent, only broadcast changes to all users.

But... the docs are completely unclear on how I would authenticate
users, i.e. prevent unauthorised users to listening to the updates
chatroom.

>From what little I've read XMPP has TLS and SASL for this purpose but
I can't find anything written about those in conjunction with GAE.
>From messages on this list it sounds like I'd in fact need a whole
other XMPP server to manage user accounts... or... it's completely
unclear basically.

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