Folks, My understanding of OMEMO was that we (the XSF) took on the work explicitly under the assumption that it was not to be based on the Signal protocol, which had IPR issues, but on Olm, which was explicitly designed, documented, *and* implemented to avoid such issues.
You may recall (I certainly do) lengthy discussions about OWS's tendency to threaten legal action on alternate implementations of their protocol, particularly their stance that *any* implementation was bound by the GPL. As I understand things right now, in order to implement OMEMO one has to fork libsignal - no other path exists without playing with fundamental primitives. A lengthy discussion ensued on this list, involving both Matthew Hodgson and others who clearly know a lot more about Crypto than I do. None of their arguments were answered. Remko supplied a PR to match these. It seems to be being ignored, then rejected out of hand. Am I wrong, if so, where? Dave. _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
