Re: [Standards] Histroy tranfer idea

2019-01-02 Thread Evgeny
On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 7:49 PM, Dave Cridland wrote: Out of curiosity, do we know if the cryptographic properties involved in sending a known set of plaintext about like that stack up? I wonder how everyone is fixated on crypto part while the hardest part is messages replication itself: in

Re: [Standards] Histroy tranfer idea

2019-01-02 Thread Dave Cridland
On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 at 17:07, Evgeny wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 7:49 PM, Dave Cridland wrote: > > Out of curiosity, do we know if the cryptographic properties involved > > in sending a known set of plaintext about like that stack up? > > I wonder how everyone is fixated on crypto part while

[Standards] XMPP Council Minutes 2019-01-02

2019-01-02 Thread Tedd Sterr
http://logs.xmpp.org/council/2019-01-02/#16:03:50 Happy New Year to all and sundry. 1) Roll call Present: Kev, Link, Georg Distrait: Jonas, Dave 2) Agenda bashing Georg suggests voting on deprecation of the XEPs from the previous meeting; Link reminds that current process doesn't allow for

[Standards] XEP-0390 improvement proposal: Cashing disco#info for services of user's server

2019-01-02 Thread Sergey Ilinykh
Problem: On each client start it necessary to send to disco info to each service to determine where is upload, muc, socks5 and other useful stuff. This slowdowns the startup and adds some load to the network and server. Depending on implementation and service type this is not obligatory should

Re: [Standards] Should we split XEP-0300 (Use of Cryptographic Hash Functions in XMPP) up?

2019-01-02 Thread Kevin Smith
On 16 Dec 2018, at 09:37, Jonas Schäfer wrote: > > This may sound ridiculous at first, given that the text easily fits on less > than 10 pages in font size, but bear with me. > > I was proposing an LC for it to Kevin, because the protocol IMO is rather > mature, but then I realized that we

[Standards] Histroy tranfer idea

2019-01-02 Thread j.r
Hello list, today I had an idea for a way to transfer history from old clients to newly added ones: If a new client is added to an account it request to the other clients if they could send the history over. If the other client somehow trust the new client (e.g. with a accept dialogue) it

Re: [Standards] Histroy tranfer idea

2019-01-02 Thread Dave Cridland
You'd be most welcome to write this down and submit it as a XEP - it's really not as hard as it sounds, and you don't need to worry about too much detail at this stage. Out of curiosity, do we know if the cryptographic properties involved in sending a known set of plaintext about like that stack