[OTR-dev] line item mpOTR todo

[Abel Luck]

Some people seem to be unclear as to what mpotr blockers are.

Here's a list of the crucial blockers:

A specification, that details:
   1. Protocol for rolling chat sessions [1]
   2. Protocol for Identity verification
   3. Deciding how Authentication looks in the  group context
   4. Decide set of chat participants. (proposal [2])
   5. How to recover from error states (proposal [3])
   6. Message ordering (to mitigate replays)
      a. Proposal: Old Blue implementation [4]
   7. Deniable Signature Key Exchange algo [5]

2, 3, are AFAIK undiscussed and need proposals

1, 4, and 5 have proposals that need to be fleshed out in a protocol
document.

6 and 7 require implementation of new algorithms and then distillation
into a mpotr protocol document.


[1]: http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-dev/2012-July/001334.html
[2]: http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-dev/2012-October/001481.html
[3]: http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-dev/2012-October/001480.html
[4]: http://matt.singlethink.net/projects/mpotr/oldblue-draft.pdf
[5]: http://matt.singlethink.net/projects/mpotr/oldblue-draft.pdf