The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of a an update to the inVerse plugin for Openfire, which makes the Converse.js web client available to your users.

This release updates Converse to version 9.0.0.

Your Openfire instance should automatically display the availability of the update. Alternatively, you can download the new release of the plugin at the inVerse plugin’s archive page . If you’ve got feedback or ideas about this plugin, come and join the conversation on Discourse !

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INTRODUCTION

Blockchain technology is transforming nearly every industry, whether it be banking,  government, fashion or logistics. The benefits of using blockchain are substantial – businesses can lower transaction costs, free up capital, speed up processes, and enhance security and trust. So it’s no surprise that more and more companies and developers are interested in working with the technology and leveraging its potential than ever before.

This blog post series will cover some of the thinking from Erlang Solutions’ subject matter experts on blockchain technology published over the last couple of years. Across four main themes, we will explore how companies and developers are working with blockchain, the principles behind the technology, what we can expect in the future and where we all fit into things.

Theme I – 6 Principles – Blockchain Guidance

Theme II – Blockchain Myths vs Reality

Theme III – Digital Asset Ownership

Theme IV – How Erlang Optimises Blockchain

Blockchain – an overview

The world is becoming decentralised.

A multitude of platforms, technologies, and services are moving from centralised proprietary systems to decentralised, open ones. This is being driven by several powerful social and psychological factors which you can find discussed later in Blockchain: Myths vs Reality and Digital Asset Ownership in the Era of Blockchain by Dominic Perini and MIchael Jaiyeola.

A blockchain is one architectural design of the broader concept of distributed ledger technology (DLT). Essentially, a blockchain is an expanding list of cryptographically signed, irrevocable transactional records that are shared by all participants in a network. Each record is time-stamped and references links to previous transactions. Anyone with access rights can trace back a transactional event, at any point in its history, belonging to any participant.

For organisations, blockchain presents an opportunity for a fundamental change in how data is managed; from where every company has its own copy of a data set to a scenario in which all parties in a network have controlled access to a shared copy.

The key benefit of this is that traditional independent institutions can collaboratively work together to integrate and optimise existing processes to mutual advantage while, crucially, not compromising on the security of sensitive data.

We view it as vital that relevant parties from every industry are across the latest in debate surrounding blockchain as the technology is set to become increasingly prevalent in all of our lives.

Theme I

6 Principles – Blockchain Guidance

1. Software Engineering

Embrace the best practices in software engineering, in particular, the exploitation of functional programming and the design patterns that emerge from it. Develop and optimise code that speeds up the software development process, its evolution and adaptation, delivering on critical time-to-market business requirements, which is essential when it comes to blockchain!

Take a modern approach to test ensuring that a high degree of quality is preserved throughout the lifecycle of a system. Leverage auto-generated Property-Based Test and continuous stress tests combined with traditional Test-Driven Development.

Empower your software engineers to embrace modern agile software development methodologies that support scaling the workforce whenever and however needed. Practising agile ways of deployment automation, type checks, sensible naming conventions and documentation is extremely important, especially during handovers or when onboarding new developers.

Distributed Systems

Work with engineers previously involved in the development of massively scalable systems. Their experience working on messaging systems or distributed databases gives you the confidence that they will choose the correct partitioning, sharding and replica parameters.

The need for engineering highly scalable and distributed systems has grown, and this is what we do every day. Building distributed systems to cater to billions of users and transactions on a daily basis. Delivering solutions that are resilient against node crashes or bad actors, and therefore exclude single points of failure.

“Having numerous clients around the globe spanning from startups to Fortune 500 companies, Erlang Solutions has gained invaluable experience and thrives when working on complex cases and providing solutions to distributed systems.”

Yanislav Malahov, æternity founder

Networking

Find a team with vast experience in growing automated network traffic management and dynamic topologies. Check if their monitoring capacity and expertise can be embedded to allow adaptation to changing scenarios, and identify problems before they occur (preemptive adaptation).

Does their approach also ensure that back-pressure control protects the system’s capacity against overloads and increases its robustness? These modern approaches are valid for centralised, decentralised and distributed peer-to-peer (p2p) networks, often associated with bespoke service discovery mechanisms, and should be something that you clear with your team early on.

Security & Resilience

Make sure that you have the right people to monitor your system and repair mechanisms, and strategies using important resilience components. Dedicated secure p2p protocols, static analysis and property-based testing are among the techniques you should adopt to drive the security of a system. Information validation is used to protect against the man in the middle (MitM) attacks. Back pressure mechanisms protect against distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS).

Both symmetrical and asymmetrical encryptions are used to achieve the highest level of security possible. It’s also worth checking on hardware security ensuring that sensitive private keys are only accessible via hardware security modules (HSM).

Erlang is a high-level language that avoids a lot of the security issues that are an issue with C/C++ (no buffer overflows, no dangling pointers, etc)

Dal Gemmell, Head of Product at Helium Inc.

Integration

‘Blockchain needs to be integrated into existing technology to be usable and affordable.’
Arzu Toren, Global Banker

Integrating applications on top of complex backends, as well as providing synchronous and asynchronous interfaces among backends, is a serious job. So it’s worth checking if your team uses frontend facing APIs such as REST and Websocket to implement responsive applications. They should comply with industry standards for compatibility and security to drive message exchanges on top of a variety of AMQP and JMS queuing mechanisms.

In the Blockchain space, we are highly competent in designing cross-chain smart contracts capable of changing anchor data to major networks such as Bitcoin, leveraging its security against history revisions. We can provide guidance to plan effective and reliable integration tests, ensuring the compliance of data validation and communication protocols is preserved throughout the development process.

Erlang can easily interface with C/C++/Rust libraries using Native Implemented Functions (NIFs), and we do that a lot to talk to cryptographic libraries and for performance-critical code.

Dal Gemmell, Head of Product at Helium Inc.

Programming Language

Engage with us as true polyglots! We specialise in Erlang and Elixir, but we are highly competent in every other language in the industry, this could be Java/Scala, JS, C/C++, Python, Rust or Go , we stay relevant!

Vast expertise in language interpretation and virtual machines has proven to be critical know-how in a variety of modern blockchain solutions.

“Erlang Solutions is renowned for its technical talent, and having already embedded some of its engineers and architects in our development team, we have no doubt that Erlang Solutions will play a crucial part in building out an extremely strong core team.”

Yanislav Malahov, æternity founder

For any business size in any industry, we’re ready to investigate, build and deploy your blockchain-based project on time and to budget.

Get in touch with your blockchain project queries general@erlang-solutions.com or via the contact us form. Stay tuned for the next theme in this series ‘Blockchain: Myths vs Reality by Dominic Perini.

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We are happy to announce the release of Smack 4.4.4. Thanks to numerous contributors this patch level release includes many fixes and improvements. I’d like to especially thank the folks from Jitsi , namely Boris Grozev, Damian Minkov, Ingo Bauersachs, and Jonathan Lennox. Who tracked down multiple bugs, including a nasty concurrency bug. Furthermore, thanks to Ingo, Smack and its important dependencies jxmpp and MiniDNS are now, again, OSGi compatible.

For a high-level overview of what’s changed in Smack 4.4.4, check out Smack’s changelog .

The shortlog for the 4.4.4 release is

flo@neo-pc ~/code/smack $ git shortlog -n --no-merges 4.4.3..4.4.4 Florian Schmaus (23):      Smack 4.4.4-SNAPSHOT      [xdata] Add missing ensureAtMostSingleValue() to parseBooleanFormField      [xdata] Safe the raw character data of form field values      [caps] Use the raw character data of form fields when caclulating the hash      [pubsub] FormNode(Provider) should not fail if there is no DataForm      [socks5] Ensure that the local SOCKS5 proxy is running (if enabled)      [core] Assert that 'event' is not END_DOCUMENT in forwardToEndTagOfDepth()      [socks5] Fix javadoc of getLocalStreamHost()      [socks5] Remove stale null check      [disco] Add DisocverInfo.nullSafeContainsFuture(DiscoverInfo, CharSequence)      [muc] Check mucServicedDiscoInfo for null in serviceSupportsStableIds()      [carbons] Remove erroneous assert statement in connectionClosed()      [muc] Check for self-presence first in presence listener      [muc] Call userHasLeft() *after* the leave presence was sent      [jingle] Add empty element optimization for <content/>      [core] Pass down the XML environment in IQChildElementXmlStringBuilder      [jingle] Mimic Manager.connection() in JingleTransportManager      [jingle] Make Jingle.Builder extend IqBuilder      [jingle] Add unit test to check that there are no redundant namespaces      [build] Remove OSS Sonatype Snapshot repository      Update NOTICE file      [resources] Rename get-contributors.sh to generate-notice-file      Smack 4.4.4Ingo Bauersachs (5):      Prevent password enforcement for SASL anonymous      Fix BOSH connection establishment      Make Smack jars OSGi bundles      Add getter for the stanza associated with the exception      Add missing stream namespace to xml declarationJonathan Lennox (2):      Update documentation of default SecurityMode.      Add removeExtension methods to StanzaBuilder.Damian Minkov (1):      [muc] Also process destory message if it contains <status/>Guus der Kinderen (1):      SMACK-908: Don't use components to count tabs in DebuggerSimon Abykov (1):      Accept an empty string as the label value

As always, this Smack release is available via Maven Central .

We would like to use this occasion to point at that Smack now ships with a NOTICE file. Please note that this adds some requirements when using Smack as per the Apache License 2.0 . The content of Smack’s NOTICE file can conveniently be retrieved using Smack.getNoticeStream() .

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I’m happy to be able to announce that we’ve released version 0.9.0 of the Push Notifications plugin for Openfire!

This version does not bring new functionality. It does fix a bug that older versions of this plugin had, when running on Openfire 4.6.4 or later.

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In this post I want to share how easy it is to use OpenPGP using the Stateless OpenPGP Protocol (SOP).

I talked about the SOP specification and its purpose and benefits already in past blog posts. This time I want to give some in-depth examples of how the API can be used in your application.

There are SOP API implementations available in different languages like Java and Rust . They have in common, that they are based around the Stateless OpenPGP Command Line Specification , so they are very similar in form and function.

For Java-based systems, the SOP API was defined in the sop-java library. This module merely contains interface definitions. It is up to the user to choose a library that provides an implementation for those interfaces. Currently the only known implementation is pgpainless-sop based on PGPainless.

The single entry point to the SOP API is the SOP interface (obviously). It provides methods for OpenPGP actions. All we need to get started is an instantiation of this interface:

// This is an ideal candidate for a dependency injection framework!SOP sop = new SOPImpl(); // provided by pgpainless-sop

Let’s start by generating a secret key for the user Alice:

byte[] key = sop.generateKey()        .userId("Alice <alice@example.org>")        .generate()        .getBytes();

The resulting byte array now contains our OpenPGP secret key. Next, lets extract the public key certificate, so that we can share it with out contacts.

// public keybyte[] cert = sop.extractCert()        .key(key) // secret key        .getBytes();

There we go! Both byte arrays contain the key material in ASCII armored form (which we could disable by calling .noArmor() ), so we can simply share the certificate with our contacts.

Let’s actually create an encrypted, signed message. We obviously need our secret key from above, as well as the certificate of our contact Bob.

// get bobs certificatebyte[] bobsCert = ...byte[] message = "Hello, World!\n".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);byte[] encryptedAndSigned = sop.encrypt()        .signWith(key) // sign with our key        .withCert(cert) // encrypt for us, so that we too can decrypt        .withCert(bobsCert) // encrypt for Bob        .plaintext(message)        .getBytes();

Again, by default this message is ASCII armored, so we can simply share it as a String with Bob.

We can decrypt and verify Bobs reply like this:

// Bobs answerbyte[] bobsEncryptedSignedReply = ...ByteArrayAndResult<DecryptionResult> decrypted = sop.decrypt()        .verifyWithCert(bobsCert) // verify bobs signature        .withKey(key) // decrypt with our key        .ciphertext(bobsEncryptedSignedReply)        .toByteArrayAndResult();// Bobs plaintext replybyte[] message = decrypted.getBytes();// List of signature verificationsList<Verification> verifications = decrypted.getResult().getVerifications();

Easy! Signing messages and verifying signed-only messages basically works the same, so I’ll omit examples for it in this post.

As you can see, performing basic OpenPGP operations using the Stateless OpenPGP Protocol is as simple as it gets. And the best part is that the API is defined as an interface, so swapping the backend can simply be done by replacing the SOP object with an implementation from another library. All API usages stay the same.

I want to use this opportunity to encourage YOU the reader: If there is no SOP API available for your language of choice, consider creating one! Take a look at the specification and an API definition like sop-java or the sop Rust crate to get an idea of how to design the API. If you keep your SOP API independent from any backend library it will be easy to swap backends out for another library later in the process.

Let’s make OpenPGP great again! Happy Hacking!

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It’s back to school season following what was a disrupted summer for most, but one where the FinTech world has continued to innovate and grow – global investment in H1 reached $98bn (£18bn in the UK) and Revolut raised a funding round of $800m at a valuation of $33bn.

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of August 2021.

Many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider to say thanks or help these projects!

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• The German translation appears at anoxinon.de
• The Italian translation appears at NicFab.it

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Events

XMPP Office Hours - Also, checkout our new YouTube channel !

Berlin XMPP Meetup (remote) : Monthly Meeting of XMPP Enthusiasts in Berlin - always 2nd Wednesday of the month.

Articles

What is project XPORTA? As announced in the April '21 newsletter , the Data Portability and Services Incubator at NGI is sponsoring the XMPP Account Portability project named XPORTA. This month they host an interview with Matthew Wild about how this project came into existence.

The "have your own TelCo based on XMPP" service jmp.chat has a new blog, with a twist, now based on Libervia so based on XMPP, with all the nice blog features that you want (like RSS) and even subscriptions via XMPP (with compatible clients like Movim or Libervia). The post announcing the new blog also covers the new registration flow and billing system. But the previous post is the real jewel, called Adventures in WebRTC: Making Phone Calls from XMPP . It details the journey through WebRTC debugging, multiple clients, NAT, ICE and all monitored through Wireshark. Get a hot or cold beverage to go with this about 70 minutes long read.

In the previous newsletter we mentioned that Debian Linux 11 will soon be launched with updated XMPP software, as this happened in the meantime, server admins are already updating or even setting up new deployments. Such as Nelson from Luxembourg, who published a blog post about setting up a server with ejabberd on Debian 11 Bullseye .

While the Snikket iOS client app was just released, read more below, the behind the scenes development continues. In the latest blog post, Matthew Wild announces that the expert folk at Simply Secure will be performing a usability audit of the current app , as well as conducting usability testing thanks to funding from the OTF’s Usability Lab. The analysis will help to improve the UX of the iOS app and Snikket as a whole.

Missed in last month's issue, the folks at cometchat have blogged about XMPP's history, working architecture, stanzas and features in general in Everything About XMPP - Extensible Messaging & Presence Protocol . If you want a quick technical overview (or need one to show others what XMPP is all about) this ~15 minutes read can bring one up to speed.

"Spaces" are the new XMPP frontier to be explored, and you'd get a glimpse of them in Gajim client news below, but the work is pretty elaborate and ongoing with many people involved. Renga 's (an XMPP client for Haiku) developer pulkomandy has blogged Some random thoughts about XMPP spaces thinking about use cases (family, business, communities) and user interfaces.

Any Turkish speakers reading the newsletter? We don't have a translation yet, but Ged has just published an in-depth blog post about XMPP titled Hangi "Chat" Programı? . In about 40 minutes it takes the reader through the story of the protocol, tells about apps, servers, comparisons with popular apps and privacy.

The March `21 newsletter brought the news that JSXC (the Javascript XMPP Client) got funding to work on group chat calls. This month they report on the work done and explain the current progress that can even be tested.

Finally, how does FaceTime work? They interestingly use the same port (5223) as XMPP does...

Software news

Clients and applications

Gajim 1.4 Preview: Workspaces . The Gajim team has been hard at work in the past months to prepare the next v1.4 release. The upcoming version brings a major interface redesign. In this post, they explain how the new interface works and what remains to be decided or implemented before the release.

Libervia progress note 2021-W31 is out with information about Docker integration, the translation portal and the first 0.8.0 beta. It also has plenty of details about the work done on the ActivityPub Gateway project (grant announced in the April '21 newsletter ) with SQL, DBus, PubSub and with new and updated XEPs.

Communiqué is a new XMPP client from the Mellium Co-op team. It was announced this month and presented at the XMPP Office Hours (unfortunately recording did not work out). The source code can be found in the repository .

Monal 5.0.1 is now available for both iOS and macOS bringing mostly corrections and more polish over the previously major release.

JSXC Openfire plugin gets a 4.3.1-1 release , with mostly bug fixes and improvements from the JSXC project.

After so many months of waiting the Snikket iOS app is now publicly released . Snikket server admins can add the app to the invitations pages to have Apple users easily find it. If you are not running Snikket you can still use the app (you can use credentials directly) but do read the blog post to know what you need to add to your Prosody instance (invitations modules) or what limitations you might experience using any other server software.

Servers

Prosody 0.11.10 has been released with a fix for CVE-2021-37601 and some minor changes. Prosody developers recommend server admins to upgrade in order to fix the remote information disclosure issue.

Libraries

The Mellium Dev Communiqué for August includes updates to the Mellium XMPP library as well as the new Communiqué instant messaging client. The biggest updates this month are MAM and ad-hoc commands support! You can read more here.

Extensions and specifications

Developers and other standards experts from around the world collaborate on these extensions, developing new specifications for emerging practices, and refining existing ways of doing things. Proposed by anybody, the particularly successful ones end up as Final or Active - depending on their type - while others are carefully archived as Deferred. This life cycle is described in XEP-0001 , which contains the formal and canonical definitions for the types, states, and processes. Read more about the standards process . Communication around Standards and Extensions happens in the Standards Mailing List ( online archive ).

Proposed

The XEP development process starts by writing up an idea and submitting it to the XMPP Editor. Within two weeks, the Council decides whether to accept this proposal as an Experimental XEP.

• No XEPs proposed this month.

New

• Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0460 (Pubsub Caching Hints)
  • Accepted by vote of Council on 2021-07-21. (XEP Editor (jsc))

Deferred

If an experimental XEP is not updated for more than twelve months, it will be moved off Experimental to Deferred. If there is another update, it will put the XEP back onto Experimental.

• No XEPs deferred this month.

Updated

• Version 1.21.0 of XEP-0060 (Publish-Subscribe)

  • Revert change from version 1.15.5 which changed meta-data to metadata in wire protocol. That was an unintended breaking change which has now been reverted. (pep)

• Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0214 (File Repository and Sharing)

  • Revert change from version 0.2.1 which changed meta-data to metadata in wire protocol. That was an unintended breaking change which has now been reverted. (rm)

• Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0248 (PubSub Collection Nodes)

  • Revert change from version 0.2.1 which changed meta-data to metadata in wire protocol. That was an unintended breaking change which has now been reverted. (rm)

• Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0283 (Moved)

  • Re-write the flow with a more focused approach. (mw)

• Version 1.1.0 of XEP-0429 (Special Interests Group End to End Encryption)

  • Add discussion venue after creation by the Infrastructure Team. (mw)

• Version 1.24.0 of XEP-0001 (XMPP Extension Protocols)

  • Change "Draft" to "Stable". (ssw)

Last Call

Last calls are issued once everyone seems satisfied with the current XEP status. After the Council decides whether the XEP seems ready, the XMPP Editor issues a Last Call for comments. The feedback gathered during the Last Call help improving the XEP before returning it to the Council for advancement to Draft.

• No Last Call this month.

Stable (formely known as Draft)

Info: The XSF has decided to rename 'Draft' to 'Stable'. Read more about it here.

• No Stable this month.

Call for Experience

A Call For Experience - like a Last Call, is an explicit call for comments, but in this case it's mostly directed at people who've implemented, and ideally deployed, the specification. The Council then votes to move it to Final.

• No Call for Experience this month.

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