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

[Detlef Lechner]

http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/FAQ#Will_Empathy_have_OTR_.28.22Off_The_Record.22.29_support.3F:
"Will Empathy have OTR ("Off The Record") support?

We think that the correct approach to secure end-to-end communications
is to support it natively in the protocol. There is ongoing work on
standardising secure end-to-end messaging in Jingle (using XTLS and
Jingle) and we plan to support this in the future (current API sketch).

We don't think that layering encrypted messaging on top of protocols
that don't support it is very useful, since such extensions won't, by
definition, work in native protocol clients, and any clients that do go
out of their way to support encrypted messaging might as well do so
using a native protocol.

Nevertheless there is a bug report talking about OTR support, and a
comment dated October 2009 is talking about API sketches for encrypted
channels and OTR.
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545347#c12> (please do not
submit "me too" comment in the bug report, thanks)."

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empathy needs to support OTR encryption
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