[OTR-users] new user, comments on authentication

[Ian Goldberg]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:07:47PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> I also still run into cases where the OTR overhead makes hitting the
> maximum message size in aim much easier, especially with HTML pastes.
> It's not obvious to users that OTR is causing their suffering, so it
> doesn't get turned off in response.  I understand that the requirement
> for blind forgability pretty much rules out compression (which is too
> bad because algorithms like XML-WRT w/ dictionary do an amazing job
> averaging 6.886 bits per char on my shortest messages and 3.2 bits per
> char on my size-rejected IMs) ... but automatic message splitting
> would be really nice.  Even if you had to manually set the MTU.

Are you still seeing this with 3.1?  Automated message splitting is
indeed turned on in that version.

   - Ian