[Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

[Ronald Pottol]

I'd say that the default chat client should have OTR support, but no
problem with having other choices that don't, Empathy has voice and
video, which does make it a nice option.

Ron

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Omnifarious
<eric-launchpad at omnifarious.org> wrote:
> This shouldn't be considered a 'Wishlist' item.  A browser without https
> support is considered broken, not under-featured.  The same should be
> true for an IM program.
>
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> empathy needs to support OTR encryption
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867
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> Status in High-level library and user-interface for Telepathy: New
> Status in Telepathy framework - library: Confirmed
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “libtelepathy” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: empathy
>
> Hello,
> I just tried empathy (the Intrepid version) and it looked very solid and stable. There were a few minor things that could be improved (e.g. automatically resizing the contact list), but that is not the topic here.
> The reason why I won't switch to empathy from pidgin is the missing OTR support (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ ). This is a really important feature because no one should read your messages.
> There were others with the same idea (links at the bottom).
> Would be so great if it could support that important encryption standard.
> Thanks for helping out!
>
> Links:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/253452/comments/2
> http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2008-September/001479.html
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16891
>


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Plato seems wrong to me today.

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