[OTR-users] otr support in gajim?

[Jonathan Schleifer]

Am 19.11.2008 um 02:10 schrieb Ananda Samaddar:

> The fact of the matter is that OTR is already implemented in Pidgin,  
> Kopete and Adium.  Three of the most popular FLOSS instant messaging  
> clients and is protocol agnostic.  This alone means that it's  
> becoming a de facto standard for IM encryption and reason enough for  
> Gajim to support it.

Actually, we don't think so. OTR is mostly used in legacy networks  
(this is how the XMPP world calls ICQ, MSN etc.) which will sooner or  
later fade away, thus it's better to use what is standarized by the  
XSF and promote that instead of embracing a workaround/hack. The only  
reason why one would want OTR in Gajim is for using transports. But  
when you can successfully migrate someone to a client that supports  
OTR, it shouldn't be a problem to migrate that user to XMPP as well,  
as most of the clients that support OTR also support XMPP.
Sure, ESessions isn't widespreaed, and it will never be, as it's  
deferred. But c2c TLS will definitely come and will very quickly  
appear in every XMPP client, as it's easy to implement. It's far  
better for Gajim to invest resources into that than into OTR, because  
all developers of major clients already agreed on standards at xmpp.org  
to implement it once it's finished.
Plus, there's still the unsupported OTR branch which you can use.

--
Jonathan

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