[OTR-dev] OTR Data is alive!

[Ian Goldberg]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 04:16:00PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> >Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:22:24
> >From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at guardianproject.info>
> >To: otr-dev at lists.cypherpunks.ca
> >Subject: Re: [OTR-dev] OTR Data is alive!
> 
> So is this compatible with the other TLV based OTR that was written
> years ago (but Ian did not like because it used TLV):
> 
> ftp://ftp.nohats.ca/libotr-symkeys.git.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.nohats.ca/pidgin-otr-symkeys.tgz

To be clear, I didn't like it because (IIRC) it used *blocking* in-line
TLV.  Once you started the file transfer, you couldn't continue chatting
until the file transfer was complete.  It sounds like this new version
doesn't have that problem.

   - Ian