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## Short Glossary
**End-to-end encryption** is a way to keep your chats truly private.
**End-to-end encryption** is a way to keep your chats truly private.<br>
Only you and the person youre messaging can read the messages.
Not even the server owner or your carrier has the keys
needed to decrypt or modify them.
**XMPP** is a protocol made for instant messaging.
**XMPP** is an extensible protocol for instant messaging.
The cool thing? The X stands for Extensible,
which basically means you can add almost any feature through XEPs:
audio and video calls,
encryption,
file transfer,
sync across devices,
text markup,
and even stories!
The ugly thing? The X stands for Extensible,
which means its pretty hard to find two applications
that support the same subset of XEPs.
**OMEMO** is a widely supported XMPP Extension Protocol (XEP)
for secure multi-client end-to-end encryption.
You can read more about
it on a&nbsp;<a
href='https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/the-quick-and-easy-guide-to-xmpp.html'
target='_blank'>dedicated page by Daniel Gultsch</a>.
## Trade-offs Between Safety and Convenience