[OTR-dev] OTR Data is alive!

[Peter Saint-Andre]

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On 9/6/13 12:04 PM, Nathan of Guardian wrote:
> On 09/06/2013 01:17 PM, Ian Goldberg wrote:
>> Does the transfer happen "in the background", so that you can
>> continue chatting, or does it lock up your chat until the file
>> transfer is completed?
> 
> It happens in the background, both in terms of being interleaved in
> the XMPP/OTR message flow, and in the Android process itself, using
> a service and notifications to show progress.
> 
> In short, you can keep chatting while the file is being
> transfered.
> 
>> Do you have a carefully documented spec for the TLV type,
>> contents, and semantics?
> 
> In progress. This progressed rapidly from a "will it work"
> prototype, to "holy crap it worked" state. The most interesting
> aspect of it is that we are essentially using an HTTP/URI-based
> model of GET with ranges, hashes, mime-types, etc.

That sounds an awful lot like the 10-year-old file transfer method in
XMPP:

http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0096.html

Of course, I understand that OTR works with any IM protocol...

Peter

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