[tor-project] Our Jabber Server

Tue Feb 9 13:07:58 UTC 2016

On 2016-02-05 20:00, David Goulet wrote:
> Greetings Everyone!
> 
> Thanks to weasel for bringing Debian Jessie to the server, we now have 
> a
> working usable Jabber server. Woot! Here is our XMPP score:
> 
> c2s: https://xmpp.net/result.php?domain=torproject.org&type=client
> s2s: https://xmpp.net/result.php?domain=torproject.org&type=server
> 
> Everyone with an LDAP account can connect to the server. Else, you 
> can't.
> Before you can do that, you need to set your "rtc" password. Here is 
> how:
> 
> 1) Enter your user and ldap password at 
> https://db.torproject.org/login.html
> and press "Update my info".
> 
> 2) At the very bottom, you should see this
> https://people.torproject.org/~dgoulet/volatile/rtc-pass.png, the 
> "Change rtc
> password" field. Put your password in there. Unfortunately, it silent 
> fails if
> you enter a "too big of a password" and we are unsure of the maximum 
> length so
> I think 16 characters (based on my experiment) is the maximum possible.
> 
> 3) Wait a couple of minutes so the database sync up and reaches the 
> jabber
> server. When you connect, if it fails, wait a bit more. Usually after 5 
> to 10
> minutes it should work so report the issue if it still fails.
> 
> Useful informations about the server now and how to use it.
> 
> Your account is <ldap-user>@torproject.org. You have to enable TLS of 
> course.
> We also have a hidden service! It's: k2r67kry5haud25b.onion. To use it, 
> set
> the server of your account with it but the user must be your LDAP one 
> that is
> <ldap-user>@torproject.org.
> 
> It's federating that means you can add contact that are OUTSIDE of this 
> server
> such as riseup users or any workable jabber server supporting TLS.
> 
> Our TLS certificate is from Let's Encrypt and checksum is below. 
> Remember that
> in 3 months that fingerprint will change:
> 
> SHA256
> Fingerprint=56:4B:0B:AC:7A:55:1D:8F:52:29:E0:A6:61:D7:0F:B6:EC:41:FC:59:FE:2B:B3:39:FA:14:23:65:38:13:26:A0
> 
> Finally, this server has a special quirk. It will _tell_ you when you 
> are NOT
> using OTR. I've put it in "optional" mode but we can also put it in
> "mandatory" mode if needed which will force all messages going through 
> to be
> OTR encrypted.
> 
> I don't expect any big issues to arise once this server gets more users 
> but at
> first we might need to tweak some stuff thus restart it.
> 
> Enjoy!
> David
> 
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Awesome work all; much appreciated.