[OTR-dev] asynchronous privkey creation

[Ian Goldberg]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:52:10PM +0100, Michael Zanetti wrote:
> Hi otr devs,
> 
> I'm the author of Kopetes otr plugin. Reading through the archives I have 
> found a thread [1] discussing asynchronous creation of private keys. However, 
> I haven't found a conclusion to this and would like to know what your plans 
> are regarding this issue.
> 
> In kopetes otr plugin I have done my own thread that generates the private key 
> to keep the UI updated but I'm blocking user input and socket notifiers (to 
> prevent incoming messages jumping into libotr). This has been working fine for 
> Kopete at KDE 3 times, but doesn't work any more in KDE4 as incoming messages 
> are processed and I have no way to stop that within the plugin. The only way 
> to fix that without blocking, would be to keep the list of incoming messages 
> and re-process them all once the key generation has finshed. Also the previous 
> discussion mentioned that this seems not to be a good option.
> 
> Do you have any suggestions how to deal with this issue? Should I implement 
> the above mentioned workaround or should I wait for an updated version of the 
> lib that adresses the issue?
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
> 
> [1] http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-dev/2008-June/000890.html

It's in the sourceforge CVS already.  You could use the CVS version, or
just pick out the June/July 2008 changes from privkey.[ch].

   - Ian