ReCaptcha integration in an KDE application

[Carl Schwan]

Le samedi, novembre 7, 2020 10:46 PM, Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com> a écrit :

> El sáb., 7 de nov. de 2020 a la(s) 18:22, Carl Schwan
> (carl at carlschwan.eu) escribió:
>
> > Hello folks,
> > Tobias and I are developing a KDE matrix client using Kirigami
> > and other KDE frameworks called NeoChat. This is a fork of another
> > QML and now unmaintained Matrix client named Spectral.
> > Tobias is currently implementing the account registration API
> > and we found out that even if it isn't mandatory in the matrix
> > spec, it is required to add ReCaptcha for connecting to most
> > of the Matrix server (including kde.org, matrix.org and other
> > major matrix servers).
> > From a technical point of view, this would be quite painful to
> > implement (adding a dependency to QtWebEngine) but most
> > importantly this would require adding integration into a service
> > that is not privacy-friendly, proprietary and monopolist. This
> > is something that we think goes against the value of KDE. But at
> > the same time, making it possible to register an account directly
> > from NeoChat is something that is quite important in the user
> > experience.
> > So my questions to the community would be to know if there are
> > already some precedent of KDE apps adding supports for ReCaptcha
> > and if this is a good idea to support it?
> > Thanks in advance for your answers,
> > Cheers,
> > Carl and Tobias
>
> Does Matrix really require "recaptcha"? I thought it had a protocol
> for "whatever login/security mechanism the homeserver gives you, as a
> webpage link".

Basically from that, I read in this GitHub issue[1] is that recaptcha is
not mendatory but it is the only service supported by synapse. Making
all the big matrix servers require to talk with recaptcha to create new
accounts.

This is not about login (that works fine with NeoChat) but more about
account registration.

[1]: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/1281
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> Nicolás