20 Jan
2025
20 Jan
'25
1:33 p.m.
Hi Daniel,
Le mardi 14 janvier 2025, 09:18:21 heure normale d’Europe centrale Daniel
Gultsch a écrit :
Hi Goffi,
I’m a bit conflicted on that.
I’m a big proponent of using Experimental as a base for people to do
experiments in (and I’m working hard to move everything that turned
out to be both useful and working to stable).
Furthermore I believe that "hybrid bridges" are something that we need
to experiment with if we want to maintain our concept of
bridges/gateways.
However as someone who has actually implemented XMPP<->PGP Encrypted
emails before I’m also seeing a lot of challenges in this particular
one and in hybrid bridges in general.
I know that this is a challenge, and I think that experimental is for that:
having a written specification help people to understand the feature and have
test implementation.
I believe that gateway e2ee is doable and necessary, and I have a working
implementation in my email gateway (however, not yet perfect, as signing is
not done at the moment, still better than plain text).
I’m with Marvin on this one. How about instead of
handing out 3 XEP
numbers we give you one to do your experiments in and we take it from
there. I would like to see at least one other (experimental) gateway
to proof out that this can actually be generalized.
Sure, as I've said in the other reply, I'm absolutely fine with that. Lets see
if other people are interested in working on that. Of course there are not so
many gateway developers, so it's more difficult to find than client developers.
Best,
Goffi