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4 Encryption in Libervia/XMPP
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7 Libervia being an XMPP client, it handles encryption between client and server, then the
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8 message is encrypted between servers, and finally to deliver to target client(s).
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12 services that you may use (e.g. pubsub service).
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15 encryption (or e2ee) may be used. This page aims to explain roughly how it is done in
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16 Libervia and XMPP so end-user can understand and exploit it correctly.
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21 machanism. Is something is not clear, please contact the development team at the XMPP
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23 details and help to improve this documentation.
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31 By default, pubsub items are in plain text (i.e. not encrypted, beside the normal
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32 encryption between client and server, and between servers). This is often the desired
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36 However, pubsub may also be used for private matters, to keep safe some of your own data,
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40 can retrieve its item, it is possible to use end-to-end encryption.
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49 or publish to the pubsub node (i.e. blog, event calendar, etc). This is done this way to
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58 You can see that as the key of a house: everybody who has a copy of the key can go inside
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59 the house, and bring something or take pictures. Sharing the secret is like making
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75 If you rotate the shared secret, new items are using the new secret, but all items
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103 Pubsub Targeted Encryption(PTE) specification is not currently an official XEP (XMPP
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112 By default, identity of the publisher of a pubsub item is difficult to authenticate: it
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114 attribute is not set by all pubsub services, and it can be spoofed by the service or the
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117 To strongly authenticate the publisher of a pubsub item, it is possible to cryptographically sign an item. This can work with any pubsub item, encrypted or not, and it can be done after the item has been published. The process use `XEP-0476: Pubsub Signing: OpenPGP Profile`_.
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119 .. attention::
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121 Signature only certifies that the signers strongly link themselves with this version of
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122 the item, not that the signers are the original authors of the item. In other words, it
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123 prevents somebody to say that somebody else has published something (the signature
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124 would be missing or invalid), but the published data may come from anywhere. Also keep
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125 in mind that a security breach (stolen encryption keys, major bug somewhere) is always
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126 possible.
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129 To handle pubsub signatures from command line, you may use
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130 :ref:`libervia-cli_pubsub_signature`.
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132 .. _"publisher" attribute: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html#publisher-publish-success-publisher
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134 .. _XEP-0476: Pubsub Signing: OpenPGP Profile: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0476.html
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