[OTR-users] Authentication question

[Franz Bayer]

hi,

is there a way to make sure that the one im chatting with is really the person i want to talk to? how to find out if someone other than him is sitting at his pc?

with pgp or gnupg i can be sure cause only he can enter the right private key password. is there a password or something like this in otr too?

also i have seen that the private key is stored in /home/me/.gaim just in clear text format. is this a security risk? how often is it changed (in case of trojan e.g.) ?

thanks for answers!
greets kiki9
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