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

[alex323]

If you want, I can do the site's backend in PHP.

 - Alex

Ian Goldberg wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:47:15PM +0100, Aldert J.B.P. Hazenberg wrote:
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>>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 :
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>>Exec sum : Success !! It worked out of the box in 1 go. Fantastic.
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>Great!  I'm glad this cross-compiling for Windows thing really works.  :-)
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>>I have 3 feature 'requests' that I think would be good to have :
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>>= 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.
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>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.
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>>= 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.
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>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?
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>>= 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 :)
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>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
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