[OTR-users] Has anyone else had a problem with seeing their own messages as OTR encrypted strings ?

[Paul Wouters]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, rapidset wrote:

> Subject: [OTR-users] Has anyone else had a problem with seeing their own
>     messages as OTR encrypted strings ?
>
> In a private chat I keep seeing my own replies encrypted (prefixed with
> ?OTR:), is this a known issue ?
> I get it on both the recent beta5 release and a nightly build from
> http://geddeth.dk/downloads/gaim/
>
> It looks something like this ....
> (12:11:56 PM) *Person1:*
> ?OTR:AAIDAAAAAAQAAAAEAAAAwPUktQ0hIojhMyhGG87T9Y3vzS7Zam521l/FVw62p1HBUCe7hABYzXbTgE/mOejUi7YrSgJRyGPnmZGUv0PFDnO3JOwy3Cd3lkpn1m/2idXx/rv4EI3uII1wnfl12DUmV4mrhM1k18secwBkKLVjNPwBmVER+6kHJHm5M/mFfJ5NYbHoJRfggQfrC5ONGfaH8t1kBrrcEiSn02qViOIdcwPH7utMoLj0kNfVgkreVJHyUCyguaNleSOCbX7CsHR8bAAAAAAAAAABAAAAB94J2ExbvoUnMpG8NelzBcB39pvIEJt+5qaybgAAABRi43mVcmH6hxWsQUeDTla+wppy/g==.
> (12:11:58 PM) *Person 2:* surely not.
>
> Also OTR doesn't seem to recognise if I have dropped out of crypted chat
> and communicate that to the other end, this would of course be a nice to
> have
> It would also be nice if OTR continued decrypting the received messages,
> just because I dropped out of private chat mode shouldn't preclude me
> from seeing the unencrypted text

It shouldn't do that.

Which protocol is this? Jabber? MSN? AIM?
Are you logged in more then once? (if jabber, what are the "resources" set to?)
Are you using any other non-standard plugins that might be doing things to the message?

I am currently using gaim beta4 and have no such problems.

Paul