[OTR-users] gaim-otr 0.9.0 is now online

Michael Richardson mcr at marajade.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca
Wed Dec 1 12:38:31 EST 2004


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>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Goldberg <ian at cypherpunks.ca> writes:
    Ian> - If we receive a Data message with no actual message in it,
    Ian> don't display it to the user.  This may eventually be useful
    Ian> for doing "heartbeat" key rotations.

    >> a) is there a debug option that would tell me this?  b) can we
    >> count the heardbeats, and show that somewhere?

    Ian> I'm not sure why the user would need to know about the
    Ian> heartbeats (short of, if they stop coming, let the user know
    Ian> that the private connection has been lost).  Can you give a
    Ian> user scenario?

  a) debugging.
  b) I'm concerned about the heartbeats getting used in some fashion.
     (subliminal channel)
  c) maybe I want to use it as a subliminal channel.


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