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

[Julian Dibbelt]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:24:03 +0200 "Julian Dibbelt" <jdibbelt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?

Using plaintext is also fairly plausably deniable (as in: the
transcript is easily forgable). That cant be the point.

- Julian