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

[Jordan Farrell]

I am sorry if you feel that I have disappeared. I did not intend it that
way. I did what I could to help. The developers of empathy stated that
they could not implement OTR unless they had a spec first. They also
forced the issue that my spec had to include XTLS. I am only a novice
programer and certianly not a spec writer, I also volunteered for far
more then I could handle hoping that OTR would be a welcome addition to
Telepathy. Unfortunately even after the Spec was ready for review, it
never recieved a review. I also was working in Python as that is what I
program in, and Telepathy removed support for Python around this same
time. JPRvita told me that he would take my spec and complete it for
XTLS and that he could program in C. For a long time it looked like this
would work. JPRvita had a solid spec, but as happend with me the spec
was never reviewed, I am not sure what happened to him and his GSoC
XTLS/OTR Spec for Telepathy.

References:
http://jprvita.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/otr-over-xmpp-on-telepathy/
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/telepathy/2011-June/005583.html

Honestly my take is that this is a developer issue, they don't want OTR
and no one can force it upon them.

So I got over it and I use Pidgin.

FYI for "cbris" or "ScotlandHacks" you should use jprvita's Spec it was
much further along than mine, it is here: https://gitorious.org/jprvita-
repos/telepathy-gabble/source/

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