[OTR-users] History Encryption

Brian Morrison bdm at fenrir.org.uk
Wed Jul 15 12:37:36 EDT 2009


Tim Clark wrote:
> 
> Using the Pidgin OTR plugin for windows, is chat history encrypted?

No, it isn't

> 
> (i understand this might be off topic for this list) If not, any suggestions on how to encrypt chat history in pidgin?

If you want the security and plausible deniability aspects of Pidgin
then keeping a log of what was said is not a great solution.

If you accept that the deniability would be lost then you can protect
the logs using an encryption program such as GnuPG.

-- 

Brian



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