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5 days agoFrom my comment in lemmy.ml in regards to security issues:
Many Signal alternatives also have security issues of their own, often making them less secure than Signal. This includes Matrix and XMPP. In the blog post regarding XMPP+OMEMO, the author replies to a question about which would be better than Signal, Matrix, and XMPP with this suggestion:
Anyone who cares about metadata resistance should look at Cwtch, Ricochet, or any other Tor-based solution. Not a mobile app. Not XMPP. Not Matrix.
In regards to Ricochet, not having a mobile app version makes it difficult to recommend to less tech savvy people.
Credit to @electric_nan@lemmy.ml for pointing me to the blog post.
Monocles chat is a fork of Conversations, and afaik the latter hasn’t updated OMEMO 2 for a couple years since this issue was created. This blog post from August 2024 mentions various clients that haven’t updated from OMEMO 0.3.0 to 0.4.0 at the time, and Conversations still seems to not support AES-256-CBC since the commit for this file hasn’t changed for 4 years.
I’m plan to use Profanity (code), but as far as I am aware and have heard, the only other clients to have updated their OMEMO implementations are (KDE desktop app) Kaidan (via QXmpp) and (Windows UWP app) UWPX (code) (also archived January 28, 2024). It would be nice to have a native Android/iOS GUI app that I can recommend to people to use with XMPP and implements OMEMO 2 or at least AES-256-CBC, but I don’t know of any at this time. If anyone here can recommend me such an application, I would be happy.
So based on this table, it looks like aTalk and Moxxy for Android exist, and both have OMEMO 0.8.3 implemented.