[OTR-users] Decrypt manually and externally

Brian Morrison bdm at fenrir.org.uk
Mon Mar 31 10:55:13 EDT 2008


db wrote:
> All my OTR conversations sent through my gmail account is stored
> online at gmail, in encrypted form. Is it possible to manually decrypt
> these messages?

Unless there is access to the session key used in each case, no.

Of course, that's the whole point of the OTR plugin, that with an 
ephemeral key any decryption of the ciphertext stream is equally plausible.

-- 

Brian




More information about the OTR-users mailing list