[OTR-users] Gaim OTR is only for' geeks', to complicated for regular users, suggestion.....

[Felix Schaefers]

A plugin or extra software is always complicated, as long as the
companies don't integrate it directly it won't be used by many people
due to laziness. "Why use encryption when chatting works without?" For
normal chats Gaim is easy, but especially teens (except me ;) ) just
need the games, the smilies, the blinking stuff from msn and co. and
thus won't use gaim. Nevertheless, I convinced several to switch when
they were tired of starting 2 messengers each time they went online.
I find OTR easy enough to install, solutions like Gaim portable make it
even more easier. Isn't it possible to offer a prepackaged Gaim+OTR from
the Gaim website directly?

Philipp

readytogo2 schrieb:
> [Ok Philipp gave me some feedback about the german translation. This is verion 0.2 http://rafb.net/p/S9YZv572.html. Just a minnor update but this was not the point of my post.]
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> I tryed to convince some of my friends to use gaim + otr + jabber (the only and best solution to chat encrypted right now because I don`t want to convince someone to use proprietary aim). Right now it`s very hard to establish private conversations. You need lots of stuff to set up. Gaim is not the most easy clients for end costumers.
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> If you really want many usrs to use encrypted messages we need something really easy. Setting up proxy or using other clients is not really a way to solve this.
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> Plesae have a look here http://www.secway.fr/us/products/. It`s working transparent. You don`t have to setup much. It`s looking nice. However I wouldn`t suggest others to use it since it`s proprietary.
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> However it`s a good example how this could be solved. A great idea, all reverse engineered or open protocolls (jabber, icq, aim, yahoo, msn but not skype) wouldn`t matter anymore. Users could continue to use their native client (proprietary single protocoll or free clone). If both users have some 'simp pro' clone running it`s encrypted and them can check the state due the extra software. (these programm should also suggest the user more and more to install and use jabber in case the proprietary protocolls owner try to stop encrypted messages over their network).
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