[OTR-users] Otr for blackberry

Christopher Lemire christopher.lemire at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 03:32:35 EDT 2009


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On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Ian Goldberg  wrote:
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>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:52:25AM +0000, christopher.lemire at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello, I use otr in both linux and windblows. A lot of people I
> > communicate with use it. They send me otr encrypted messages not
> > knowing I'm on my phone and I see the message as unencrypted. I was
> > wondering if it would be possible to make otr for the blackberry
> > phone. The instant messenger client supports many protocols and uses
> > libpurple. I forgot which version of libpurple, but I can find out.
>
> Are you sure?  libpurple is a C library, and (third-party) BB progs have
> to be written in J2ME.
>
> That said, we're working on a java version of libotr, so this will
> hopefully be possible soon.
>
> > Would this be difficult to port? Another thought was having otr use
> > gpg keys. Authentication could be set up without otr by signing public
> > keys. Thanks.
>
> Lots of people suggest that, but don't take into account that there's no
> standard way to indicate your IM username and network in your gpg
> userid, so manual intervention would still be required.
>
>   - Ian
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What is the website for that Java port of Libpurple? Can I svn
checkout the code? How's the progress going? I'm really interested in
that project.

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Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire at gmail.com>
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