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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;">Whoah, I thought Pidgin was a preferred platform for OTR and OTR was a contender for the title "most secure communications protocol".</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;">I see quite a few new Pidgin security issues were posted & fixed at the end of Jan:</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;"> <a href="https://www.pidgin.im/news/security/" target="_blank">https://www.pidgin.im/news/security/</a></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><b>"drwhax-at-2600nl.net |otr/Example Allow|" <<a href="mailto:9dmhumvlat@sneakemail.com">9dmhumvlat@sneakemail.com</a>> writes:</b></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">On 03/26/2014 03:01 PM, Nathan of Guardian wrote:</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">> On 03/26/2014 05:14 AM, Jurre van Bergen wrote:</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">>> On 03/26/2014 02:27 AM, Ben Silberstein wrote:</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">>>>> If I send a file in Pidgin using XMPP while OTR is engaged in an</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">>>>> encrypted session is that communication encrypted as well?</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">>> No, it will simply be send over XMPP without an OTR layer.</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">> I sure wish we could get more adoption for either our OTRDATA spec</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">> (<a href="https://dev.guardianproject.info/projects/gibberbot/wiki/OTRDATA_Specifications" target="_blank">https://dev.guardianproject.info/projects/gibberbot/wiki/OTRDATA_Specifications</a>)</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">> or Crypto.cat's proposal for</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">> <a href="https://github.com/cryptocat/cryptocat/wiki/OTR-Encrypted-File-Transfer-Specification" target="_blank">https://github.com/cryptocat/cryptocat/wiki/OTR-Encrypted-File-Transfer-Specification</a></font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">></font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">> Is it possible for the libotr plugin to intercept file transfer activity</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">> in Pidgin or Instabird?</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">I feel like nobody should ever develop anything for Pidgin ever again,</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">it's such an horrible piece of software. The crypto can be so strong but</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">you will get owned with any of the 1000+ 0days in it. I'm not sure about</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Instantbird. I would love to know as well.</font></span></div>
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