[OTR-users] OTR limitations

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Michael Reichenbach wrote:

> I see two major problems with OTR:
>
> 1) no way to encrypt offline messages

I don't use voice mail either :)

> 2) And even more worse: if you connection is a bit unstable (mobile
> connection) and you are offline for a short time while a buddy is
> sending a message this message is simply lost in nirvana without any
> warnings. Normaly the jabber server works like a mailbox, I may accept
> that there will never come support for offline messages but that
> messages just get dropped without notice is not acceptable.

That's not true. If your connection goes up or down, OTR still works fine.
Even if you miss a message, it will resync the crypto.

Paul