[OTR-users] OTR proxy or OTR plugin with Miranda IM

[Scott Ellis]

Hi Paul,

What client do you have on the other end?

I have tested it using miranda on both ends, and had it working -
although I've had some transient issues keeping the state of the OTR library
on both sides in sync. Opportunistic works for me, and keys are generated
when needed although you can use the button to manually regenerate any keys.

I've been told it does not work when one end is gaim and one end is miranda
- i beleive i know why: gaim is all utf-8 internally, as is the otr library,
and protocol plugins would need to translate this to the protocol's encoding
when sending/receiving. Miranda (to put it very simply) uses utf-16
internally. At present i convert the outgoing messages to utf-8 before
passing them through the OTR library, then send them. On receive I do the
reverse. Perhaps I should be converting the output from the OTR library back
to utf-16 before passing the message on to the protocol plugin for sending -
i will test this when i get a chance.

Scott


On 08/02/06, Paul Wouters <paul at cypherpunks.ca> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Cindy Salwen wrote:
>
> > Has anyone successfully used the OTR proxy with Miranda IM?  When I run
> the
> > proxy I can't get Miranda to go on line.  I've tried different settings,
> but no
> > success.
>
> I just tried it and it did not work for me. Things i noticed:
>
> 1) you need to go into the plugin option tab and click otr and generate
> keys per
>   protocol manually
> 2) opportunistic did not seem to work.
> 3) set to "always otr" seemed to work and I got an established connection,
> but
>   that connection then just showed garbage messages.
>
> Scott: I'd gladly do more testing and work with you to get the plugin
> working.
>
> Paul
>
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