[OTR-dev] [guardian-dev] Is there security risks on developing OTR addons for web browsers ?

[Ian Goldberg]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:37:32AM +0200, Frithjof wrote:
> If you want to work on secure IM in a browser you might be interested in
> 
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Otter/Attentive
> 
> Otter Attentive is an upcomming sponsered project of the Tor project "to
> add secure instant-messaging to the Tor browser bundle".
> 
> Best,
> Frithjof

As far as I know, the Attentive Otter project is to (re-)bundle pidgin
and pidgin-otr into the Tor Browser Bundle distribution, *not* to run
OTR *inside* the Tor Browser.
-- 
Ian Goldberg
Associate Professor and University Research Chair
Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo