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

[Peter Saint-Andre]

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On 6/10/13 5:15 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> On 06/10/2013 06:45 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:
>> 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
> 
> I like that idea, so you'd have something like:
> 
> XMPP-side-channel:// XMPP-in-band:// otr-in-band:// https:// 
> ftp:// sftp://
> 
> etc.

That was the idea behind Jingle-based file transfer in XMPP:

http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0234.html

Peter

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