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

[Ian Goldberg]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:08:36PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
>   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.

But we don't *want* the Key Manager (such as it is) to automatically
deal with that message.

   - Ian