[OTR-dev] mpOTR redux - now in git

Nadim Kobeissi nadim at nadim.cc
Thu Feb 14 19:31:42 EST 2013


Jacob, as it stands you are currently plagiarizing from the Cryptocat
Project. You have not asked for our permission to take our content and list
it as your own, and you have not properly credited any of the contributors
to the specification or mentioned its original source.


NK


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Nadim Kobeissi <nadim at nadim.cc> wrote:

> I should mention that Jacob took the liberty of copying all of Cryptocat's
> mpOTR research from the Cryptocat wiki without asking for permission and
> without crediting any of the people involved. It currently consists the
> entirety of this repository. At no prior point were we informed about this.
>
>
> NK
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Jacob Appelbaum <jacob at appelbaum.net>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We've had a few attempts to write a spec for mpOTR based on the original
>> paper. It hasn't gone over very well in that after years, we're still
>> without an mpOTR spec and an mpOTR implementation.
>>
>> So I've put up the latest version of the mpOTR spec as a git repo here:
>>
>>   https://github.com/ioerror/mpOTR/
>>
>> In an ideal world, we'll answer the high level questions and then drill
>> down to a more detailed set of steps. This is meant to be a pure
>> specification document and is not meant to be an implementation
>> documentation project. It should hopefully allow for multiple groups to
>> write mpOTR clients and have a nice secure group chat!
>>
>> All the best,
>> Jacob
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