[OTR-users] Is Encryption Limited to Text?

[Stephen Perdue]

Greetings all,

Forgive what may seem a too obvious question.  I read the OTR web  
page top to bottom, browsed the last year of the list archive, and  
scanned the less technical parts of the "Why Not To Use PGP" paper.

Can OTR handle any data that's passed through it (e.g. video chat,  
file transfer), or is it limited specifically to text chat?

The envisioned scenario is iChat + OTR proxy on an Intel MacBook at  
one end and Trillian Pro + OTR plug-in on WinXP at the other, but I'd  
welcome any insights outside those conditions as well.

While I'm at it, it looks two people have reported issues running OTR  
Proxy on Intel MacBooks.  Has anyone else had issues?  Can anyone  
report smooth operation?

If OTR is not suitable, any other suggestions for reasonably private  
video chat?  (I use Skype now but find it a bit flakey.)  I have no  
expectation of selective attack, just everyday privacy concerns.  I  
can live without deniability/forgeability since I'm certainly beneath  
the interest of anyone with the resources to convincingly forge video.

Thanks for reading my question,

Stephen Perdue