[OTR-users] Making a distribution of Gaim with OTR preinstalled

Shane M. Coughlan shane at shaneland.co.uk
Sat Dec 17 12:41:35 EST 2005


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Hello OTR people!

My name is Shane Coughlan, and I am a member of the Mobility Project.
We're interested in bringing mobility and security closer together.

We're working on a portable version of Gaim with OTR plugin
preinstalled.  It's a distribution designed to help people take their IM
client with them on a USB stick.  It's called Mobility IM distribution,
and we have a beta online at http://mobility.shaneland.co.uk (early days
yet).

We're busy creating systems for verifying files and encrypting profiles
(using a combination of file hashing technology and symmetric encryption
from GnuPG), though that's not going to be ready for some months.

Now, an issue we've noticed during our OTR test conversations is that
long messages passing through Yahoo! (and possibly other networks)
sometimes generate a loop.  Gaim complains its a badly formed message,
and it attempts (infinite loop) to resend the message.  It's a little
annoying, and does not occur when OTR is not enabled.

Is there any way to stop this?  In addition, are there any notices or
documentation that we should include with our distribution to make it
better for the public at large?

Thanks for making OTR.  It's a wonderful concept.

Best regards

Shane
http://mobility.shaneland.co.uk

I'm also a member of:
Enigmail OpenPGP for Thunderbird http://enigmail.mozdev.org
WinPT: http://www.winpt.org
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