[OTR-dev] Secure connections through a connect/disconnect cycle, OTR error messages

[Greg Troxel]

  So when you click "end private connection", the client first sends an IM
  like "[ending private connection]" (as if you'd typed that string), and
  then forgets the context?

This begs a larger issue, which is that there is a subchannel within
the IM channel for key management, and another for encrypted/maced
data.  I would define a 'deleting context' message format within the
key management subchannel, that carries the hash of the context being
deleted.  Pretty much what you are saying, but more of a focus on
KM-KM communication, and making it machine-parsable as priority #1.


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        Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com>