[Adium-devl] XMPP encryption

[Peter Saint-Andre]

We are refining the tests to be more accurate. As I said, all we did was 
look at the XMPP "resource". Some clients hardcode this to the name of 
the software (e.g., <user at jabber.org/Adium>) whereas other clients 
enable the user to change it (e.g., <user at jabber.org/FooBar>). So the 
numbers are probably not reliable right now. However, at the time we 
took the snapshot today there were 10,748 connected users, so Adium 
users were at least 5% of the users -- and I'd think more than that.

I'll report back when we have more accurate statistics.

Colin Barrett wrote:
> Are you guys giving out more information about those usage statistics?  
> It would be interesting to know, for example, what percentage of the  
> total population we were.
> 
> Privacy is understandably a concern, and if you don't want to release  
> that information, that's cool :)
> -Colin
> 
> On Aug 14, 2008, at 3:34 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 
>> Today we ran a snapshot of statistics at the jabber.org IM service.  
>> This was a simple scan of connected clients based on the XMPP  
>> resource identifier (not fancier service discovery lookups).  
>> However, I'm happy to note that of the 547 active sessions with a  
>> resource of "Adium", 100% had connections encrypted via old-style  
>> SSL or new-style TLS.
>>
>> As a result, Adium users will be well-prepared for this:
>>
>> http://wiki.jabber.org/index.php/Secure_Communications_Week
>>
>> Thanks to the Adium team for supporting XMPP encryption!
>>
>> /psa
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