[OTR-users] What do you suggest for non-real-time messages?

Michael Reichenbach michael_reichenbach at freenet.de
Tue Dec 9 16:04:09 EST 2008


Encryption & Authentication are most important for me and Deniability &
Perfect forward secrecy are nice give-away.

To chat with my friends I prefer using OTR. For communication with
business partners OTR would be a bad choice because you need to have a
prove after conversation who had said what.

But because OTR is for non-business communications I am asking what to
use for non-real-time messages with friends.

A non-real-time message is needed when the buddy is currently not online
but I want to leave the recipient a message so the recipient reading it
the next time he goes online. (Real-time is normal instant messages,
don't know a better term for what I am talking about.)

I could use E-Mail and OpenPGP. But...
- It does not provide Deniability & Perfect forward secrecy, only
Encryption & Authentication.
- And the even more worse reason not to use it: it's very uncomfortable.
In my generation we prefer to talk to each other to use instant
messengers because them are more fast and practical, as soon you go
online you see who's online and who's not and you maybe get some
messages from your "mailbox" (messages send as you where offline). It's
really preferred over E-Mail. (Yes, it's arguable and a matter of task.)
- It's very impractical to chat over to systems (for example, Pidgin &
OTR + E-Mail & OpenPGP), two conversation lines and bad integration into
each other (history) and two needs to authenticate.

That's the big derivation why I want to use OTR also for non-real-time
communication.

Can you tell me this feature will ever come into OTR?

Or what else can you recommend me to use?

best regards,
-mr



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