Tails

#1 Updated by sycamoreone 2015-01-19 19:19:24

I am already following the development around xmpp-client. If you are not keen on doing this yourself, feel free to assign this ticket, Feature #8575, and Feature #8576 to me. (Then somebody would need to brief me about what was discussed at 31c3.)

To be able to decide if a potential replacement is ready, we should also start a blueprint to list Tails’ requirements. For example, is SASL authentication for IRC a requirement?

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2015-01-19 19:57:31

> I am already following the development around xmpp-client. If you are not keen on doing this yourself, feel free to assign this ticket, Feature #8575, and Feature #8576 to me.

I’ll happily do it!

> (Then somebody would need to brief me about what was discussed at 31c3.)

These discussions are mostly captured in these tickets already, but don’t hesitate to ask me and DrWhax for details privately if needed :)

> To be able to decide if a potential replacement is ready, we should also start a blueprint to list Tails’ requirements.

Agreed, and appreciated.

> For example, is SASL authentication for IRC a requirement?

It’s needed for several IRC networks that I find important to support, when connecting over Tor, so I would say yes.

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2015-01-19 19:59:15

Actually, anything related to xmpp-client is on Bug #8574, so let’s move the discussion there. And I’ve assigned that one to you, instead of this very one, assuming that’s expressing your intent better.

#12 Updated by Anonymous 2018-01-15 10:53:21

Added some info to the blueprint.

Next steps with the most likely candidates:

• try coyim
• help to find somebody to audit coyim
• get Tor Messenger into Debian
• try dino-im

#15 Updated by jvoisin 2018-04-21 14:32:24

I’m currently using Dino to replace Pidgin, and so far so good. The only missing feature are OTR (but there is OMEMO instead) and a systray icon. It’s even translated in several languages :)

CoyIM on the other hand doesn’t support rooms very well for now, and likely won’t in a near future, as I was told by olabini.

#19 Updated by andrew.mcglashan 2019-02-14 01:19:51

intrigeri wrote:
> For now, we’re doing all easy things we can to make Pidgin safer in Tails (AppArmor confinement, shipping support for only a couple protocol), so the current situation is not that scary, but people I trust say it’s riddled with security issues.
>
> It would be good to have a long term plan to replace Pidgin with something safer, without losing the functionality we need.
>
> team: drwhax, sycamoreone

You can easily add OMEMO support to Pidgin. Here are some links that got my Pidgin setup working perfectly well:

https://github.com/gkdr/lurch
https://github.com/gkdr/carbons
https://app.assembla.com/spaces/pidgin-xmpp-receipts/git/source

Please have a look at those and reconsider keeping Pidgin, I think it is the best client too for a desktop by far.

#20 Updated by intrigeri 2019-02-14 07:04:57

> You can easily add OMEMO support to Pidgin. Here are some links that got my Pidgin setup working perfectly well:

> https://github.com/gkdr/lurch
> https://github.com/gkdr/carbons
> https://app.assembla.com/spaces/pidgin-xmpp-receipts/git/source

AFAICT none of these are in Debian, so for now, I’ll take this “easily” with a grain of salt :)