[jdev] OTR and Jabber - Clients wanted

[Peter Saint-Andre]

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:45:17PM +0200, Florian 'fh' Holzhauer wrote:

> I just wanted to ask if there are any Jabber-Clients besides Adium and
> Gaim which support OTR (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/) or are at
> least planning to support it. I dont like Gaim and Adium is Mac-only,
> so I would be really happy if there are other clients out there.
> 
> OTR impressed me much due to its advantages to GPG, and the fact that
> it works in the message itself which would allow me to communicate
> encrypted with an ICQ/AIM/whatever user if he is using an OTR capable
> client, too.

I've been looking into OTR as the basis for a better approach to
encryption over Jabber. Right now, OTR encrypts only the character 
data of the message <body/> element. That's great for interop with
other IM systems, but it's rather limiting for more complete XMPP
coverage. Perhaps it would make sense to negotiate which mode you
want to use -- message bodies only or full stanza encryption.
Realistically, I know that many IM users don't care about full
stanza encryption, but I also know that full stanza encryption might
be valuable for other uses of XMPP.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
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