[OTR-users] pidgin-otr: passphrase private key and sign public keys

[Brian Morrison]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:24:03 +0200
"Julian Dibbelt" <jdibbelt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I just recently installed OTR via the pidgin plugin but quickly
> realized that neither is my private key stored encrypted on the disk
> nor has the list of public keys of my friends been signed with my
> private key.

That's not the point of OTR, if someone else uses your identity to talk
to a friend of yours then what they say is even more plausibly deniable
than if you'd said it. What's the problem?

-- 

Brian Morrison

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