[Adium-devl] XMPP encryption

[Colin Barrett]

I'm assuming you're doing a substring, right, as it seems like Adium  
adds a random string afterwards (e.g. AdiumD6B03601)

But still, this is awesome news -- >5% of total users considering Mac  
market share is good!
-Colin

On Aug 14, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

> 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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