[Adium-devl] XMPP encryption

[Augie Fackler]

IIRC it is google talk that adds the random string, not us.


On Aug 14, 2008, at 17:56, Colin Barrett <timber at lava.net> wrote:

> 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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