[OTR-dev] empathy bounty

[Peter Saint-Andre]

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On 9/18/13 2:40 PM, Alex wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:35:52 -0400 (EDT) Paul Wouters
> <paul at cypherpunks.ca> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Ian Goldberg wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 06:26:31PM +0200, Max wrote:
>>>> Hi all.
>>>> 
>>>> Out of curiosity - are you guys aware of 
>>>> http://freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/333/telepathy-should-support-otr-encryption
>>>> ?
>>>> 
>>>> Just wonder if someone would like to have 400+ bucks :)
>>> 
>>> But see also 
>>> http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2009-September/001710.html
>>
>>
>>> 
See also
>> 
>> https://wiki.gnome.org/Empathy/FAQ#Will_Empathy_have_OTR_.28.22Off_The_Record.22.29_support.3F
>>
>>
>> 
Which seems naively outdated in todays world where spy agencies
>> compete for our plaintext traffic.
>> 
>> Paul
> 
> How hard would it be for them to just make OTR a Jabber protocol 
> extension?

Them = the Telepathy / Empathy team?

Or

Them = the XMPP Standards Foundation?

OTR is an "over-the-top" protocol, so I don't think we need an XMPP
Extension Protocol (XEP) to define it - although we might want a
service discovery feature for it (cf. XEP-0030 at xmpp.org).

Peter

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