I'm out of the office until 1st August. On 5 May 2011, at 01:27, Mark M <296...@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. =) > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a member of > Papercutters, which is subscribed to One Hundred Paper Cuts. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867 > > 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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867 Title: empathy needs to support OTR encryption To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/296867/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
