[OTR-dev] OTR encryption state

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Fri Jan 28 09:00:26 EST 2005


On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:06:44PM -0800, verbal wrote:
> > It's the clever thing suggested by Gregory Maxwell.  The first time you
> > send a message to someone, append a magic pattern of whitespace.  OTR
> > clients recognize the whitespace at the end of the message, and
> > opportunistically start OTR.  It's just meant as a more invisible
> > (and automatic) version of the OTR Query message.
> > 
> 
> so i was messaging someone on regular windows aol im client and i
> decided to see what would happen if i just tried to start an OTR
> conversation. she said it complained that aim said she didnt have the
> plugin for OTR which is fine, but then subsequent messages received
> from me had white spaces in it. it didnt stop until i restarted my
> client. =\

The whitespace should stop when she sends you back a non-OTR message.
If that's not what happened, can you replicate the problem?

   - Ian



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