From 851ede2ae1cf4a0fd8915881caded0ac1ce19770 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Mottram
In mid 2016 Gajim became the first desktop XMPP client to support the OMEMO end-to-end security standard, which is superior to the more traditional OTR since it also includes multi-user chat and the ratcheting mechanism pioneered by Open Whisper Systems. To install it:
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ Go to Edit/Preferences and select the Advanced tab. Under Globa-Go to Edit/Accounts, select your account then the Connection tab. Ensure that Use custom hostname/port is checked and enter your onion address there as the hostname (it can be found on the About screen of the administrator control panel). Using the onion address will give you better protection against correlation attacks within the Tor network. +Go to Edit/Accounts, select your account then the Connection tab. Ensure that Use custom hostname/port is checked and enter your onion address there as the hostname (it can be found on the About screen of the administrator control panel). Using the onion address will give you better protection against correlation attacks within the Tor network. Also under Proxy select Tor.
@@ -309,9 +309,9 @@ If you wish to use OpenPGP to encrypt your messages then go to Edit/Accounts<
The Profanity shell based user interface and is perhaps the simplest way to use XMPP from a laptop. It's also a good way to ensure that your OTR keys are the same even when logging in from different laptops or devices, and it also means that if those devices later become compomised then there are no locally stored OTR keys to be found.
@@ -394,9 +394,9 @@ When accessed via the user control panel the client is automatically routed throJitsi can be downloaded from https://jitsi.org
@@ -423,9 +423,9 @@ You can also see this videThe default XMPP client in Ubuntu is Empathy. Using Empathy isn't as secure as using Jitsi, since it doesn't include the off the record feature, but since it's the default it's what many users will have easy access to.
@@ -444,18 +444,18 @@ Click on Advanced and make sure that Encryption required and IgTor Messenger is a messaging client which supports XMPP, and its onion routing enables you to protect the metadata of chat interactions to some extent by making it difficult for an adversary to know which server is talking to which. You can download Tor Messenger from torproject.org and the setup is pretty simple.
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