[OTR-users] Google Alert : How to keep instant messaging off the record

Paul Wouters paul at cypherpunks.ca
Tue Oct 18 11:10:05 EDT 2005


On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Ian Goldberg wrote:

>> He got it wrong here though :(
>> (deniability is in the fact that *afterwards* anyone can "encrypt" messages
>> with the 'leaked' the old keys, so *anyone* who sniffed the communications
>>  (not just alice or bob) could forge messages in the past (but not read any)
>
> Actually, he's wrong in a few places, but this isn't one of them.  :-)

Okay, bad phrasing on my end :)

>> He also tried to run gaim with otrproxy, which is kinda weird.
>
> He apparently had trouble finding another Linux AIM client that
> supported proxies.  Do you know of one?

Kopete?

http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdenetwork/kopete/faq.html#id2570894

I have not tried this myself, as I do not run KDE.

Paul



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