Allow identified user to store metadata with his nick

[qq99]

• email
• website
• country code? could be neat if people want to advertise that
• bio? if you want to put a blurb in there

If email exists, we can use gravatar for the user list

[qq99]

It might be worth looking into OAuth accounts and/or enterprise mode at the same time

[heyakyra]

is a password for nicks supported already so that it is reserved from use by others?

[qq99]

Not yet, there's no formal notion of accounts at all The closest you can get is using a PGP keypair

[heyakyra]

Ah, cool! Why PGP instead of OTR or WhisperSystems TextSecure protocol?

[qq99]

I don't know about WhisperSystems TextSecure protocol, but as for OTR:

I did a bit of research into multi-party OTR. It seemed like it's pretty difficult to get a negotiation for potentially many connected clients, and it seems to need to re-negotiate for every join/leave (so this could become quite expensive). Also, I couldn't really understand it nor how too make it work :P OTR is nice, but what I wanted to support was linkable anonymity.

With PGP, the only thing that ever changes is the number of signed&encrypted messages you send out. There's no re-negotiation if you assume your friend is always using the same keypair. It has the nice property that if you're only signing, you only need to send out 1 message. If you're signing and encrypting to every single chat participant, that's N messages, each person receiving their own copy (but echoplexus hides all that from you).

[qq99]

One of my goals would be to create a dedicated system of accounts, sort of like an enterprise mode, where you cannot participate unless you create an account. Seems like it'd be useful on small personal / company deployments