jauto

Welcome to jauto

jauto aims to provide a full suite of tools bringing you easy and secure authentication via XMPP (Jabber), based on JEP-0070.

jauto stands for Jabb… XMPP Automated Authentication.

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This Project is taking part in Google Summer of Code 2006.

jautod

XMPP server component

Apache mod_jauto

HTTP server component (for Apache)

Firefox jauto extension

HTTP client component (for Firefox)

Jabberzilla-jauto

XMPP client component (for Firefox)

in addition:

psi-jauto

JEP-0070 support for Psi

Guide

If you’re new to this project, you may be interested in ALL-in-1 guide, which explains how to install, set up and test all the components.

Status report

Since this page is powered by WordPress, you can easily view weekly status reports (usually published on Mondays) and all other development news.

The more I think about XEP-0070, the base of this project, the more I don’t like it. And I am not the only person concerned about it. While the idea of using XMPP for authentication is great, the answer provided by XEP-0070 is far from perfect.

So this is the time to take a step back and look at the protocol again. And this is what I am currently doing. And when a better way to do things appears, it will be done