[OTR-users] new user, comments on authentication

Paul Wouters paul at cypherpunks.ca
Tue Nov 27 12:03:30 EST 2007


On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Chad Perrin wrote:

>
> Well . . . this user was pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of the
> "shared secret" functionality.

It's important to upgrade all clients though. We now run into the issue
where older clients cannot do this to newer clients, and it is even more
confusing to the enduser. (add to that we only do this new authentication
on pidgin, not gaim, and some distros are stuck with gaim)

Paul



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