[Bug 16891] Telepathy should support OTR encryption

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16891





--- Comment #20 from Craig <candrews at integralblue.com>  2009-08-03 08:15:37 PST ---
(In reply to comment #19)
> I think helping the XMPP Standards people to provide end-to-end encryption
> (implementing <http://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/xtls.html> or something like
> it, and advancing it to Recommended status) is a much better use of developer
> time; it'll result in a better protocol, with a well-defined security model,
> that does not conflict with the protocol's normal extensibility mechanisms.
> 

OTR also works over non-XMPP networks (I use primarily over AIM). That's
something that this XMPP standard can never achieve.

I'm not taking sides - just stating some (hopefully) useful facts.


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