Hi, Tor people!
My name is Sofía and I'm the person leading the OTRv4 initiative. I don't know if this is the best place to send this, so if it is not, let me know ;)
As part of the work on creating the version 4 of the OTR (Off-the-Record) messaging protocol, we are running a summit in Stockholm, Sweden, the 15 of July, in the morning.
This summit runs in parallel with the Privacy Enhancing Technology Symposium 2019 (PETS2019, https://petsymposium.org/2019/index.php). It will be a summit around the work done in the field of secure messaging, deniability and privacy on July 15 on the morning (that is, the day before the start of PETS 2019). It will be held at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). You can find it on the official PETS2019 programm: https://petsymposium.org/2019/program.php and on the official otr website: http://otr.im/
The OTRv4 summit will feature a mix of a discussions, short talks and presentations which aim to highlight the importance of privacy, security and deniability in a secure messaging setting to researchers, students, activists and developers. The final schedule for the event will be announced closer to the event. The workshop will start at 9 am and end at 12.30 pm.
As one of our developers and my current partner, Ola Bini, has been detained in Ecuador with no actual evidence, we will also talk about this. You can read about this in the latest EFF statement: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/eff-ohchr-iachr-cybercrime-law-interco...
We will like that you join us there... so let us know if you can!
Thank you!
The OTRv4 team -- Sofía Celi @claucece Cryptographic research and implementation at CAD: https://autonomia.digital/ EF74 1A5F 5692 E56F 14F6 243C 3992 6144 F89D 996F