Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
The Matrix Autumn Special!
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
A Call to Arms: Supporting Matrix!
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Thoughts on cryptocurrencies
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
GDPR Compliance in Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Sharing a safety tool: announcing policyserv
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Introducing Matrix Widgets - including Jitsi video conferencing!
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Solidarity Social operates a Bluesky PDS and uses Matrix for private DMs
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
FR#163 – Decrypting Matrix
On the convergence towards private data on social networking protocols, and the connection to Matrix
Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication
You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation
Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication
You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation
Matrix and Element: a case study of funding an open protocol for real time chat
Matrix is a distributed comms protocol for real-time chat that looks like it is taking off.
why not matrix?
at this point it seems like most of the tech community is familiar with matrix, the "open network for decentralized communication". lots of projects and communities have migrated from a host of other platforms, including irc, discord and slack with the promise that their new spaces will be free forever. i first discovered matrix in 2021 and have dedicated a lot of time trying to understand exactly how it works, as well as trawling through github issues to try and understand whether we should consider matrix…
Room to grow: Building collaborative, open software
We examine one approach to collaborative, open software by building on Matrix, a secure, decentralised, real-time communication protocol with generic database capabilities hiding beneath its current focus on chat.
BeeKEM: Decentralized, Secure and Efficient Group Key Agreement
Group key agreement protocols are essential for modern secure messaging. Most existing group key agreement protocols assume a centralized model with a semi-trusted service that mediates the communication. This is efficient, but problematic for some important applications, since a central service can be a choke point for surveillance and censorship. There is a nascent literature on decentralized group key agreement that avoids such reliance, but existing proposals either do not scale, with update costs linear or quadratic in the group size, or lack proofs of security. Centralized protocols can offer much lower (logarithmic) cost. We present BeeKEM, the first decentralized group key agreement protocol with logarithmic update cost in the common case (degrading to linear in the worst case) and proofs of security. We provide an open-source implementation and demonstrate that it is competitive with OpenMLS. BeeKEM opens the door for a range of communication and collaboration applications offering not only end-to-end encryption, but also metadata privacy and censorship resistance.