OWASP Off the record 4 Java Project

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• FAQs
• Acknowledgements
• Road Map and Getting Involved
• Minimum Viable Product
• Project About

Introduction Privacy is daily reality for many internet users. Eavesdropping user's content and using it for various reason is not desired by many of the application users. Putting trust on communication channel, service provider or government not to intercept your content is not a good idea. OTR framework solves this problem by cryptographically processing the users content in transit and at rest. No eavesdropper can read the content, not even the service provider What is OTR ? OTR4J stands for off-the-record for Java. end-to-end encryption (off-the-record) is a system of communication where only communicating users can read the messages, neither eavesdropper nor communication facilitator channels can read messages. OTR4J provides simple framework and prototype that helps developers to easily implement end-to-end encryption into Java application. Example applications are messaging, file transfer, secure information transfer application Why use otr4j ? It provides high degree of privacy and security. How does it work ? OTR4J uses hybrid cryptography system. It uses RSA and ECDH for key exchanges and AES encryption. Technical details of protocol is explained here Example API Bob sends message to Alice OTRClient bobClient = OTRClient.get(config); bobClint.login("bob", "password"); bobClient.sendMessage("Hello Alice", ALICE_USER_ID); Alice reads messages OTRClient aliceClient = OTRClient.get(config); aliceClient.login("alice", "password"); aliceClient.readMessages(); Broader Goal Main Goal: Provide ability to strengthen privacy by providing stronger end-to-end encryption in transit and stronger encryption at rest to application developers by simpler API in most of the popular languages Licensing Copyright 2016 Jigar Joshi Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Source Code Documentation Wiki Home Page Issue Tracker Project Leader Project Leader - Jigar Joshi Related Projects JavaEncoderProject Classifications

News and Events [22 Dec 2016] 1.0-SNAPSHOT is available API APIs for basic functionality is available Basic client with in-memory storage is provided for reference Functionality Privacy in transit is available Message authentication and out of the band verification User authentication for REST MySQL based message store for server Configurable toggles are available for various knobs of encryption

How can I participate in your project?

You can participate in project by multiple ways.

Feature Request Raise your feature request here with detailed information

Contribute code Pick an open issue, forkoff the github repository and create PR

Help in awareness One of the quarter goal is to spread awareness. you can help here by mentioning this project in your blog, tweets and through any other media.

If I am not a programmer can I participate in your project?

Yes, you can certainly participate in the project if you are not a programmer or technical. The project needs different skills and expertise and different times during its development. Currently, we are looking for researchers and software developers to help.

I have nothing to hide why should I care for privacy?

Some users have thinking that they have got nothing to hide and they are ok with sharing content. This is too local and narrow perspective to privacy concerns.

Volunteers

The OWASP Security Principles project is developed by a worldwide team of volunteers. A live update of project contributors is found here. Your name will be recognized here for your help and volunteer work for this project

The first contributors to the project were:

• Jigar Joshi
• Want to see your name here ? Contribute please

Currently I have just put out a basic functional prototype with sample code, as Immediate next steps I want to take a deep scan of other application of otr and provide simpler interface for broad set of use cases, I don't have further clarity on roadmap but the general idea is to make available to broader audience with pain free way to understand and integrate

A project roadmap is the envisioned plan for the project. The purpose of the roadmap is to help others understand where the project is going as well as areas that volunteers may contribute. It gives the community a chance to understand the context and the vision for the goal of the project. Additionally, if a project becomes inactive, or if the project is abandoned, a roadmap can help ensure a project can be adopted and continued under new leadership. Roadmaps vary in detail from a broad outline to a fully detailed project charter. Generally speaking, projects with detailed roadmaps have tended to develop into successful projects. Some details that leaders may consider placing in the roadmap include: envisioned milestones, planned feature enhancements, essential conditions, project assumptions, development timelines, etc. You are required to have at least 4 milestones for every year the project is active.

Roadmap

As of November, 2013, the highest priorities for the next 6 months are:

• Complete the first draft of the Code Project Template
• Get other people to review the Code Project Template and provide feedback
• Incorporate feedback into changes in the Code Project Template
• Finalize the Code Project template and have it reviewed to be promoted from an Incubator Project to a Lab Project

Subsequent Releases will add

• Internationalization Support
• Additional Unit Tests
• Automated Regression tests

Getting Involved

Involvement in the development and promotion of Code Project Template is actively encouraged! You do not have to be a security expert or a programmer to contribute. Some of the ways you can help are as follows:

Coding

We could implement some of the later items on the roadmap sooner if someone wanted to help out with unit or automated regression tests

Localization

Are you fluent in another language? Can you help translate the text strings in the Code Project Template into that language?

Testing

Do you have a flair for finding bugs in software? We want to product a high quality product, so any help with Quality Assurance would be greatly appreciated. Let us know if you can offer your help.

Feedback

Please use the Code Project Template project mailing list for feedback about:

• What do like?
• What don't you like?
• What features would you like to see prioritized on the roadmap?

This page is where you should indicate what is the minimum set of functionality that is required to make this a useful product that addresses your core security concern. Defining this information helps the project leader to think about what is the critical functionality that a user needs for this project to be useful, thereby helping determine what the priorities should be on the roadmap. And it also helps reviewers who are evaluating the project to determine if the functionality sufficiently provides the critical functionality to determine if the project should be promoted to the next project category.

The Code Project Template must specify the minimum set of tabs a project should have, provide some an example layout on each tab, provide instructional text on how a project leader should modify the tab, and give some example text that illustrates how to create an actual project.

It would also be ideal if the sample text was translated into different languages.

This page is where you need to place your legacy project template page if your project was created before October 2013. To edit this page you will need to edit your project information template. You can typically find this page by following this address and substituting your project name where it says "OWASP_Example_Project". When in doubt, ask the OWASP Projects Manager. Example template page: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Projects/OWASP_Example_Project

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