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

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> 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.

Why not provide a URI that defines the transport mechanism? If we are
now already discussing the limits of one kind of file transfer
mechanism, we're bound to need different ones over time.

Providing a URI could also mean I can encrypt it and put it up on an ftp
server.

Paul