[OTR-users] about how the otr works (what if password get stolen)

[Jean-Baptiste Zeller]

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Tatu Portin wrote:
| So, I would like to get a bit clarification... Now I think that OTR
| works by encryping the current conversation, so that other's can't
| see... what if someone uses the same computer, having pass and login for
| the im account? But I guess it prevent such happening, if he steal your
| username and pass, and try use by his own computer.. because if he
| hasn't stolen the private key, he can't indentify as the original
| person. So if someone takes your private key, username, and password,
| and logins to your im account from different computer, he can show up as
| you, for the OTR of the person he wants talk to?
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If you think something phony is going on you can do a socialist 
millionaire exchange again asking the person what was the previous 
shared secret you used.
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