[OTR-users] wiretapping

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Sat Jun 18 17:10:09 EDT 2005


On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:15:07AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> The possibility -- and ease of mounting - of a service provider MITM
> attack is a strong argument for viewing unconfirmed signing keys as an
> 'uneasy' rather than 'good' state.

Right.

> Perhaps the OTR distribution should have a jabber server module to
> MITM OTR, in the same spirit as the forgery toolkit.

This is a _fantastic_ idea.  But it'll have to fall to someone else.  It
should be too hard, if someone wants to give it a shot.

   - Ian



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