[OTR-users] History Encryption

Brian Morrison bdm at fenrir.org.uk
Wed Jul 15 13:37:34 EDT 2009


Tim Clark wrote:
>>> (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.
> 
> unless i store the chat history inside a truecrypt volume, which preserves plausible deniability. but thats really an overkill for my needs.

Well actually you want to store the history in a truecrypt volume inside
another truecrypt volume, and I would argue to do it because you can!

If everyone did something of that nature, snooping would become a thing
of the past....

-- 

Brian



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