[OTR-users] OTR and CHAT question

[Ian Goldberg]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 03:33:49PM -0500, Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
> If your jabber server supports client-to-server encryption, then the
> jabber chats should also be encrypted.  In fact, using OTR with
> encrypted jabber IM sessions isn't completely necessary.  Doesn't
> hurt, though.

That's only true if you run your own Jabber server that everyone trusts.
Client-to-server encryption doesn't help if someone else runs the server
itself and can read/modify the messages there.

   - Ian