tulir's comments

On: Show HN: Amber – better Beeper, a modern all-in-one messenger

[tulir]

The bridges made for Beeper are all open source (https://github.com/mautrix/), so you can set up your own Matrix server with bridges and use any open source Matrix client (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/).

Besides Beeper, the only consumer bridge hosting service I'm aware of is Element One, but it's only barely maintained, so I'd definitely recommend self-hosting over that.

On: Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App

[tulir]

Messages are stored in encrypted form on the Beeper server and the Beeper client has a local search index (the same one used by Element desktop: https://github.com/matrix-org/seshat)

On: Why Isn’t Telegram End-to-End Encrypted by Default (2017)

[tulir]

The page seems to have been updated recently to say 1000 instead of 150, definitely less than a month based on archive.org

On: P2P Matrix

[tulir]

matrix-media-repo has an early implementation for IPFS support: https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-media-repo/issues/115#is...

[rglullis → tulir]

Thanks for sharing this. I am working on matrix hosting and a multi-homed media service will be very useful.

On: OpenSSH 8.2

[tulir]

I'm pretty sure the server also needs to support it. The U2F signature stuff is different from SSH, so it needs a new authentication protocol: https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/PROT...

[microtonal → tulir]

You are right. There is also more information here:

https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=157259802529972&w=2

This step is very straightforward; append the public key to authorized_keys as you would normally. Note that U2F keys are a new OpenSSH key type, so the server must support it too.

I guess it will take a few years until all servers are upgraded.