Encrypting Matrix Building a universal end-to-end encrypted communication ecosystem with Matrix and…

Encrypting Matrix Building a universal end-to-end encrypted communication ecosystem with Matrix and Olm
by Matthew Hodgson

At: FOSDEM 2017

In this talk we will discuss Matrix's mission to be an open, global end-to-end-encrypted communications network - showing that it's possible to buildopen communication infrastructure which is both secure _and_ decentralised(unlike the silos of Signal, Wire, etc); where users can own their data andpick who they trust to run their service. We'll show how you can use Matrix tosecurely defragment communities scattered over proprietary silos such asSlack, Telegram and Gitter, open silos like Rocket.Chat and MatterMost -whilst also bridging to IRC, XMPP and even SIP.

We'll also introduce the Megolm cryptographic ratchet - a new ratchet writtenby Matrix to tackle the specific problem of encrypting Matrix rooms, which mayhave thousands of users and require synchronised history over multiple devices(including new devices). Megolm is layered on top of the Olm ratchet, and isunusual in that it encrypts per-device rather than per-user, and lets roomsspecify how much scrollback may be decrypted by new devices: providing acustomisable trade-off between privacy and usability. This is a major stepforwards from other systems which unilaterally prioritise privacy overusability.

Finally, we'll give a quick tour of all the FOSS clients, bots and bridgesthat the community has built on Matrix over the last year - ranging fromnative Qt clients (Quaternion, NaChat, Tensor), CLI apps (WeeChat), Reactwebapps (Riot, Freebird) to Native mobile apps (Riot).

Room: Janson
Scheduled start: 2017-02-05 14:00:00

[greencoder]

I hope matrix or a comparable project will establish a secure standard for communicating in the future. Currently, many websites require the use of email while they do not offer any way to specify PGP or SMIME keys for encryption. I hope for the utopic day when the requirement of owning an email address will be obsolete.

[toger_k]

Really good speaker😊
And thanks for the work on matrix!!

[augmentos]

Didn't some ICO scam crypto company buy Matrix if so sad

[ms]

Bad servers with matrix long time to post msgs ppl wont invest in pvt servers at this stage