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Episode: Matrix French gov deployment: opening a private federation securely (matrix-conf-2025)
Description: The French government has deployed a private Matrix federation for French civil servants called Tchap.
Currently this federation has about 300 000 monthly active users and its usage is growing constantly.
Today our federation is closed and we would like to be able to connect with other public French Matrix nodes (local authorities for instance), and also other European countries.
We should implement measures to ensure that the federation remains resilient against potential attacks, both technical (e.g., DDoS, data interception) and organizational (e.g., unauthorized access, insider threats) :
- How can we restrict the servers we wish to communicate with? How...