Jacki's Developer Blog

Hello there, hopefully you have arrived happily in the new year. There’s already some progress I want to share with you. First of all there’s new functionality in the GNUnet messenger service. The service allows sending tickets now which originally come from the RECLAIM service in GNUnet . Those tickets allow sharing selected attributes from your identity with another contact in a secure and private way: Only your selected contact can use the ticket because it requires their own identity key. Your contacts can rely on the attributes coming from you because it depends cryptographically on your identity key. You can adjust the values of those attributes and your contact will be able to receive its updated state. You can revoke an issued ticket at any time, making your contact loose the ability to read current values from the shared attributes. So what is all of this for? Couldn’t we already share information privately with a selected contact via PRIVATE messages in the messenge

Hey everyone, welcome to my second (maybe this will become yearly now) overview of what projects I contributed to over the last year. You might remember that I already had enough projects for a filled up schedule but I can ensure you, I found something to derail my focus even more. But let’s call it another little gift to unwrap instead. The graphical Messenger application only got a few fixes, mostly to patch package configurations. I also changed the build system from GNU Autotools to Meson . Hopefully that’s the last time I change the build system. The service in GNUnet got some more contributions from me lately. Partially because I got financial support from NLnet again which I’m thankfully for. Also because I want to bring my studies to an end and it’s a great topic for research. But honestly I want this project to become a practical option for messaging. So you can expect more contributions on this project in the next months as well as my monthly blog posts about its progres