[OTR-users] Success !! - Test report - XP SP2 + Gaim 1.1.2 + OTR plugin 1.0.3-.2 and ICQ account

[Ian Goldberg]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:47:15PM +0100, Aldert J.B.P. Hazenberg wrote:
> I promised to Paul to deliver a test report and tonight I had time,
> so I started my OTR Quest and the results are in; here we go :
> 
> Exec sum : Success !! It worked out of the box in 1 go. Fantastic.

Great!  I'm glad this cross-compiling for Windows thing really works.  :-)

> I have 3 feature 'requests' that I think would be good to have :
> 
> = OTR announcing, preferable configurable as Standard ON or OFF.
> ~  ON = The moment I start chatting with an OTR enabled client
> ~       the conversation switches to OTR, automatically.

We're talking about stuff pertaining to this in otr-dev.  Right now, if
you send a message from one OTR client to another, OTR will
automagically notice and start a private conversation.

> = Group support, my best guess is that this is pretty complicated
> ~                 but would make it even more 'acceptable'/desired
> ~                 by a even larger part of the users of IM networks.

There are Issues with this, involving the Deniability and other security
properties of OTR.  For example, when you receive a message in the
group, should you know for sure who wrote it?  Or just that someone in
the group did?  Do you have any assurance that other people in the group
are seeing the same messages you are?  When do messages become
forgeable?

> = Please start a WIKI or reshuffle stuff around.
> 
> ~  The web page at http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ is just way to nerdy
> ~  and unorganized and pretty scary for people who like to go OTR but
> ~  get kinda lost in things like compilation tips before they hit the
> ~  easy stuff like configuring the software :)

There are neither compilation tips nor configuration instructions on the
web page.  That being said, I totally understand that the page isn't
well-laid out.  If someone wants to help reorganize it, that'd be
awesome.  [I don't think I want to make the wiki jump just now, though.]

   - Ian