[OTR-users] encrypted file transfer

[Markus Krainz]

Hi!

If someone wants to send me a sensitive file over IM this is what I
usually do:
I paste them my pgp public key in ascii format over an encrypted OTR
session.
They then encrypt the file with pgp for me before sending and vice versa.

Ian Goldberg wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 03:19:30PM -0500, Christopher Lemire wrote:
>   
>> Yes, do you agree, disagree? Feel free to comment on what I said, give
>> it a +1 or a -1 and choose which is your preferred method of encrypted
>> file transfers.
>>     
>
> Until file-transfer is built in to OTR (coming soon?), I'd think using
> gpg -c (conventional / symmetric key crypto) to encrypt the file using
> a key fetched from /dev/[u]random, sending the encrypted file (however
> you want), and sending (the key and the SHA256 checksum of the encrypted
> file) over OTR looks like the best thing to me.
>
>    - Ian
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