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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Nathan of Guardian wrote:
> 
> 
> 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?

It uses a separate XMPP server:

* Install and configure an XMPP server with BOSH support, e.g. ejabberd
* Make sure your XMPP server's BOSH URL is reachable from JavaScript files on
  the web server (same origin policy, SOP).
http://www.jsxc.org/installation.html


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

I wonder if it negotiates the key for SRTP via OTR.  That'd be nice.


> 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.

Definitely, we could get a javascript implmenetation of OTRDATA for cryptocat too.

.hc

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