[OTR-dev] OTR encryption state

[Evan Schoenberg]

Apologies, but I'm new to encryption.  What are IKE and SA?

On Jan 26, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:

>   No matter who I am talking to, if I stop encryption while in an OTR
>   chat, it should not turn itself back on.  This isn't a per-contact
>   thing...
>
> We are addressing this, but I think see it differently.  If I'm
> running IKE, and manually nuke an SA, I expect IKE to regenerate it.
> So I'm distinguishing between "discard this SA" and "stop doing OTR".
>
> Yes, these are UI things, so I'm thinking about gaim-otr.  Doing
> this cleanly might impose some requirements on the library, but I
> don't have any reason to think that yet.
>