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authorDaniel Gultsch <daniel@gultsch.de>2016-11-18 12:03:02 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2016-11-18 12:03:02 +0100
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@@ -329,6 +329,11 @@ feature is regarded experimental. Conversations is the only client that uses
XEP-0027 with conferences. (The XEP neither specifically allows nor disallows
this.)
+#### Why is Conversations not end-to-end encrypted by default
+We briefly had OMEMO as the default E2EE but it turned out to be a usabilty nightmare and thus we reverted that. You can find more information in [the commit message](https://github.com/siacs/Conversations/commit/035d0c79572d5981c53d1bff7f30b484c6542f17) of that change.
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+Quick reminder that Conversations **always** uses TLS to connect to your server. It won‘t even connect to a server without TLS.
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### What clients do I use on other platforms
There are XMPP Clients available for all major platforms.
####Windows / Linux