[OTR-dev] Project to Conceal communication profiles from the service provider

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 05:44:54PM -0600, Andrew Vineyard wrote:
> It is an interesting idea, but the idea of sending dummy messages to
> random users would mean spamming unintended recipients with
> unintelligible text. While it would help hide you messages better, it
> would backlash with complains from the random recipients. To handle
> that, the messages would have to be sent only to users who are using the
> same software and OTR plugins, and are all using the same IM server, and
> letting the server itself send the bulk of the dummy messages to
> everyone. The software would have to know that it's getting dummy
> messages so it could also ignore them completely.

OTR is end-to-end.  The server shouldn't be able to see that it's
a dummy message or not.  The server shouldn't be trusted for
anything.


Kurt