[OTR-users] Re: automatic end-private on logoff?

Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com
Mon Oct 29 18:54:13 EDT 2007


On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:12:13PM -0400, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:06:46PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > 
> > Voila, everyone's happy.  Obviously, this is a very high-level view of a
> > re-handshake approach, and would require the clients to be able to
> > recognize the difference between encrypted and unencrypted messages.
> 
> That's pretty much exactly what happens now, except that there's no
> "count"; clients only remember the last message they sent.
> 
> As to having pidgin send the FINISHED message when the user chooses "Log
> off": that's perfectly sensible.  It currently does it when the user
> chooses "Quit".  It's just that no one's ever asked for this before.

Was the problem in this case confined to use of a mobile client later,
then?  I thought there was some kind of problem indicated with the
desktop client that had the OTR plugin, too -- though I suppose I may
have misread the complaint.

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