[OTR-users] OTR limitations

[Chad Perrin]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:58:50PM -0500, Paul Wouters wrote:
> 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.

To be perfectly fair, I feel I should note that while it typically does
so, there have been times it has not -- and this appears to be a problem
more often with some of my contacts than with others.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Larry Wall: "What is the sound of Perl?  Is it not the sound of a
wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?"
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