Matrix.org

Mentors: Student: Munukurthi Binesh

This project aims to develop an application that has the ability to delegate membership of a room based on the user’s interaction with other third party services. A user can either be invited, kicked or put in a “standby” state for a room based on their past interactions. There are five main components in this project: 1) A reusable frontend component that handles the login UI for both Matrix and other third-party services. 2) A server-side component and a bot that verifies a user’s authorization to a room and decides their membership. 3) An admin panel to configure the relationship between matrix rooms and groups in third party services. 4) An external invite URL that can be used to get an invite to a room. 5) Token authenticated account registration for existing authorized users. I will be using the matrix-nio library mainly for building the bot since it has most of the functions required for interacting with the server and building a feature-rich tool.

Mentors: Student: Aditya Rajput

Currently, keeping privacy in mind, Matrix uses seshat to store a searchable database on the user’s device itself. As the number of conversations and messages increase, maintaining an index on the client side becomes tougher. The solution to these problems is a Searchable Symmetric Encryption (SSE) scheme that lets the client safely store an encrypted database on an untrusted server and search through it with full privacy. This project will implement, in particular, the keyword search scheme outlined in a Demertzis et al. paper titled “Fast Searchable Encryption with Tunable Locality”. I will achieve this by creating a Python library that exposes methods to create, update and search on encrypted indices stored in content repositories in a Matrix homeserver. As a part of the project I will be demonstratively integrating the library into an existing Matrix client. Additionally, I will submit results of preliminary performance evaluation.

Mentors: Student: r0hit2005

This project aims to update the implementation of VoIP support to concur to the latest Matrix spec changes, and add features to the nheko client which adhere to the protocols. A final long term goal would be to incorporate every new feature available under the protocol, which will clearly last outside the project period

Mentors: Student: nannanko

The project kazv is a project that I really like, and I'm going to submit this poposal to address the meta issue proposed by the authors of kazv to add handling of media files to kazv. I'll go over my plans for each period and what I can contribute to matrix.org.

Mentors: Student: Techno-Disaster

Work on the fluffychat and matrix dart sdk calling functionality and make it stable for everyday use. Along with this the UI of the call screens will also be updated and calling should work in background and terminated states of the app as well.