[OTR-users] OTR and Gaim on IRC

[Ian Goldberg]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 01:19:10PM +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Does the OTR Gaim plugin work on private IRC chats?
> 
> Yes, I know that OTR can't possibly work for a channel. But I don't know 
> enough about the IRC protocol to know if it should work for a private 
> IRC chat.
> 
> I know it works with Jabber. Should I get a Jabber account instead of 
> using IRC?

IRC is the only IM protocol (that I know of) that OTR doesn't work over,
because of IRC's really really small message sizes.  Once fragmentation
support is in, though, it ought to work.

   - Ian