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

[Marcus Haslam]

I'm out of the office until 1st August.

On 5 May 2011, at 01:27, Mark M <296867 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:

> I've been tracking this bug over the years and am very happy to hear
> momentum is gaining. I'd humbly like to put forward a use case that  
> may
> or may not affect how the implementation is performed.
>
> I regularly use OTR via Pigdin to securely communicate from a jabber
> account through a private jabber server then through a IM gateway to
> many AIM, MSN and Yahoo accounts (required by work). This is one of  
> the
> areas where OTR shines as it is protocol independent. One of the  
> reasons
> that OTR managed to gain popularity is its entire protocol is  
> wrapped in
> the text that is transferred between users (read as, "it just works").
> It manages to avoid all sorts of complexity and issues by staying
> entirely out of the existing IM protocols including any sort of server
> side changes or support.
>
> Adding encryption into the jabber protocol (XTLS/Jingle) doesn't help
> unless there are encryption and federation standards that are  
> supported
> across all IM protocols and i'd imagine that would be harder to get
> implemented than this bug. =)
>
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> Title:
>  empathy needs to support OTR encryption
>
> Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface:
>  Confirmed
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
>  Invalid
> Status in Telepathy framework - library:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
>  Triaged
> Status in “libtelepathy” package in Ubuntu:
>  In Progress
> Status in “empathy” package in Fedora:
>  Won't Fix
>
> 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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