[OTR-users] A clueless question :) about ichat-av and otr-proxy

[tor]

thanx for answering my question paul, I will probably employ the latest 
OpenVPN-cvs running over a socks5 proxy forwarding into ssh via 
connect.c/tor in that case to connect up the iChat A/V portions. Its 
very good to know where one is NOT protected by efforts such as OTR.



      thanx again
      a tor user

Paul Wouters wrote:

>On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, tor wrote:
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>>Hi All,
>>           Am I to understand that when  ichat a/v is proxied via http 
>>to 127.0.0.1:8080 and otrproxy is running on both ends
>>that the AV content is proxied over the otrproxy(i.e. encrypted) and 
>>thus can be used without eavesdropping or does
>>OTR only protect the textual IM only?
>>
>>    interested readers wish to know
>>     a new and clueless ichat A/V and OTRproxy user under OSX
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>No, out of bound connections (send file, and I assume Audio and Video too)
>are not encrypted. I don't think OTR could possible work for audio/video,
>as the DH key exchange is not *that* cheap, you'd need quite some random
>and cpu for that.
>You should probably think about setting up an IPsec or other type of VPN
>tunnel between you and the other party with the A/V.
>
>Paul
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