[OTR-dev] Version negotiation problems in Adium/Pidgin?

[Ian Goldberg]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 12:56:29PM -0800, Len Sassaman wrote:
> I ran into a problem earlier, where an XP/Pidgin 2.3.1/OTR 3.1.0 was
> prompted with a box asking her to enter a secret only I would know, etc.
> 
> I assume this is an implementation of the socialist millionaire's
> problem-inspired authentication protocol Ian was working on? In any case,
> my version of Adium (1.2.1), does not support this. All I see are
> fingerprint and secure id.
> 
> Shouldn't there be a protocol negotiation here?

Yup, probably.  We're actually doing an overhaul of the buddy
authentication UI right now, as a result of having done a user study.
We'll keep this issue in mind as well.

   - Ian