XMPP Newsletter April 2020

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Everyone go for decentralization - no joke! 01 Apr 2020
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Intro
Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of February and March 2020.

We had a big delay releasing and finalizing the February release of the XMPP Newsletter. So the decision was made to combine both into this version - apologies!

Anyway, we are always happy to contributors - just come along and talk to us in the [Comm-Team MUC xmpp:commteam@muc.xmpp.org?join] and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort, which process is fully documented.

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Articles
A nice and short summary about XMPP - en español!

Marvin Schirrmacher analysed WhatsApp's VoIP protocol. He extracted cryptographic keys and also showed that code obscurity does not finally protect against attackers. Further readings on GitHub here, here and here.

Mobile Kommunikation: zeitgemäß und rechtskonform German article about mobile communication in authorities mentioning MOKA/XMPP.

Daniel Gultsch (iNPUTmice) published several posts commenting on the situation on OMEMO initial vectors.

A discussion (Spanish) on Quey compared the performance of XMPP and Matrix. Seems that XMPP outperforms easily!

Liz Flynn scheduled a notification for IETF-107 for Messaging Layer Security (MLS). You can read the current architecture draft here.

After a recent secruity flaw in WhatsApp groups, the FSFE recommends XMPP as decentral and open alternative amd solution. The XSF tweeted about this already.

debxwoody has started to build a place for German users of XMPP including social media, mailing list, homepage and a blog. He is calling for supporters!

After the Prosody team released Snikket, Alexander Gnauck explains how to run it on your NAS.

Sam Whited wrote about the Go XMPP library.

Turns out [Grindr uses #XMPP for their in-app chat https://mastodon.xyz/@jcbrand/103757814572529323]

Events
Report from Sprints DU and BER https://hackmd.syndace.com/s/r1fNElZSL#

Servers
ProcessOne released their [xmpp-notifer v1.0.0 https://blog.process-one.net/xmpp-notifer-v1-0-0/] which allows to send notification to XMPP.

https://blog.process-one.net/go-xmpp-v0-5-0/

Clients and applications
https://monal.im/blog/new-mac-and-ios-betas-2/ https://tigase.net/beagleim-3.7-and-siskin-5.7-released/

Other
https://github.com/xsf/xeps/pull/903

GSoC
> Students Apply > Deadline March 31, 2020 at 20:00 > Students can register and submit their applications to mentor organizations. > https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

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