[OTR-dev] OTR Encrypted File Transfer, Spec Draft

Wed Jun 5 15:13:27 EDT 2013

On 06/05/2013 02:30 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> On 6/5/13 12:20 PM, Chris Ballinger wrote:
>> I talked to Miron about this before and my hesitations about
>> sending it through the chat channel is that you risk being
>> throttled or banned by the service because sending a file looks
>> similar to a DoS attack.
> 
>> Back in the 90s on AIM you could only send so many messages so
>> quickly before it would boot you off the service. I would be very
>> surprised if messaging systems today wouldn't do something
>> similar.
> 
> As the operator of a somewhat large IM service, I can guarantee you
> that such operators almost always enforce rate limiting.
> 
> Peter

Rate limiting will affect both XMPP in-band and OTR in-band the same.  Only an
out-of-band file transfer would get around that.  So we'll need to find a way
to deal with that gracefully regardless of whether its in-band XMPP or OTR.

.hc

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