[OTR-users] OTR and Gaim on IRC

[Alex]

Speaking of fragmentation support, what specifically needs to be fixed
with my patch? I am still interested in implementing this feature and
would like to do it correctly.

Ian Goldberg wrote:

>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
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