[OTR-dev] OTR message delivery acknowledgement

[Peter Saint-Andre]

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On 2/24/13 6:14 AM, Vlad Ion wrote:
> Dear OTR Devs,
> 
> I am using ORT with Pidgin and I seem to be losing messages
> whenever the wifi connection is acting up.
> 
> It would be absolutely amazing if OTR could also do some hash of
> the message and expect a reply with that hash within 5-10 seconds
> and a failure to receive that hash would instantly let the sending
> party know their message was not delivered. This would drastically
> increase the reliability of these encrypted messages.
> 
> Is anyone working on a simple delivery acknowledgement method to
> ensure that messages get to the other end and that any such failure
> to do so is reported?

IMHO the OTR layer is the wrong place to be building in reliability.
In XMPP, we depend on TCP but also have built a stream-level
reliability layer:

http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0198.html

Do you experience these problems on an XMPP system, or on AOL or
another proprietary IM system like that?

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/


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