[OTR-dev] OTR encryption state

[Evan Schoenberg]

I may be misunderstanding, but these proposed 'modes' don't seem to 
address the original issue verbal posted.

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...

Meanwhile, the question of "people who don't use OTR" versus "people 
who may use OTR" versus "people with whom I always use OTR" is a simple 
per-contact preference, implemented at the level of the client, not the 
protocol or library... "Automatically attempt to connect via OTR."  If 
yes, then opening a chat will attempt to connect.  If no, it won't.  
For "mode 2" you don't check the box, then you manually connect as 
desired.

-Evan

On Jan 26, 2005, at 5:09 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:

>   mode 1: people who i know do not use OTR
>
> I would only set this when I was having trouble.  I suppose this
> setting would omit the whitespace auto-start tag.  Thus, I'd only set
> it if trouble,  becaues if someone upgraded their client, I'd want to
> start otring.
>
>   mode 2: people who IM from different machines/clients that sometimes 
> have it
>
> I would set this (current behavior) for almost everyone
>
>   mode 3: people who i know have OTR all the time
>
> I would set this if I knew that, and wanted to have communications
> fail rather than risk cleartext.
>
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