[OTR-users] OTR and Yahoo

[ben k]

Yahoo + OTR seems to be working fine again.  I'm sure people noticed but I 
thought I'd follow up.

Also, I looked all through yahoo messenger's "help" pages but I never found 
a contact email or question form anywhere.  Great service, no?  ;-)

Thanks,

-ben

>From: Ian Goldberg <ian at cypherpunks.ca>
>To: otr-users at lists.cypherpunks.ca
>Subject: Re: [OTR-users] OTR and Yahoo
>Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:17:19 -0500
>
>On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:58:22AM -0500, ben k wrote:
> > I am noticing the same thing.  OTR is not establishing a private 
>connection
> > any more through the Yahoo network.
>
>Confirmed.  jbash and I did some analysis, and it seems the Yahoo
>network is dropping packets that look like they're base64-encoded.
>
>For example, we observed Yahoo would drop this message we tried just
>typing (well, cut-n-pasting) into gaim:
>
>.....

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