[OTR-dev] Key validation via Namecoin

[Ian Goldberg]

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 07:07:42PM +0200, Daniel Kraft wrote:
> > What you're envisioning is an "authentication plugin" architecture 
> > for the pidgin-otr plugin itself.
> 
> Yes, that sounds interesting -- especially if other projects could
> also benefit from it.
> 
> I think I'll simply start off with some proof-of-concept code that
> patches the plugin directly.  If this later evolves into an
> "authentication plugin" as soon as the architecture is available,
> great -- I should be able to reuse most of the internal code and just
> have to rewrite the interface.  Before this happens, anyone interested
> can simply use the patched version of the OTR plugin to try it out.

Fair enough.  Just make a git branch somewhere.  But to be clear, if the
"authentication plugin" architecture is going to become available,
you're almost certainly the one who will be making it happen.  ;-)

   - Ian