[OTR-users] multiple keys, one account

Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com
Thu Mar 6 12:11:09 EST 2008


Is there any particular reason, with the Pidgin OTR plugin, that one
could not use a second set of OTR encryption keys for a second computer
with the same IM service account(s)?  Would this potentially cause any
issues for other people with whom one communicates via these accounts?

The problem I'm trying to solve here involves one computer that's less
"trusted" than the other.  One is in a work environment where others have
access to the computer, on an MS Windows machine, and the other is a
private machine running a free Unix-like OS that is its owner's sole
responsibility.  One, then, would be identified as the less-trusted key
set, and the other as the more-trusted.

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
MacUser, Nov. 1990: "There comes a time in the history of any project when
it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production."



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