[OTR-users] multiple keys, one account

[Greg Troxel]

"Gregory Maxwell" <gmaxwell at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Chad Perrin <perrin at apotheon.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Sure. it just works. Don't have your contacts authenticate the less
> trusted one.. and they'll be able to tell which they are talking to by
> the lack of authentication.

You would still want to authenticate the work key, but have it labeled
as a lower level of clerance.  It would be nice to have names/tags
associated with keys and have those dipslayed.  But that's perhaps too
complicated for many.