Re: [Telepathy] Goals for end-to-end security

2012-06-11 Thread Simon McVittie
(Please correct me if anything in this mail is wrong. I am not a cryptographer.) On 06/06/12 20:07, Simon McVittie wrote: > * Confidentiality: Alice can send messages that nobody except the holder > of a particular secret can read. Much like draft-saintandre-xmpp-e2e-requirements, we could divi

[Telepathy] Goals for end-to-end security

2012-06-06 Thread Simon McVittie
There have been several attempts [1][2][3][4] to define extensions to Telepathy to provide end-to-end security for Text channels, using XTLS and/or OTR. I'm currently doing some rather speculative thinking about securing non-text content on XMPP (1-1 stream tubes and Jingle calls) using XTLS or DT