[guardian-dev] owncloud + jsxc: webchat that does XMPP, OTR, and webrtc

[Nathan of Guardian]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> I've just been playing with owncloud, and despite my hatred of PHP, I
> have to
> say owncloud is really quite impressive.  It provides a dropbox-like
> service,
> web calendar + caldav sync, and now I just found out that it can do XMPP
> webchat with OTR and webrtc:
> 
> http://www.jsxc.org/

Does Owncloud include an XMPP server or do you use an account elsewhere?

Yeah, wow: End-to-end encrypted SRTP/WebRTC audio and video calls from
Firefox and Chrome without plugin

also seems like "encrypted file transfer" is a planned feature. Perhaps
we need to coordinate with them and Jitsi on the OTRDATA front, or at
least find out what they are thinking.

> This could be a super quick way to get people using OTR, while being
> flexible
> enough to work with all the standard clients.

Agreed.