[OTR-users] Can't decrypt own messages

Christopher Lemire christopher.lemire at gmail.com
Sun May 31 08:46:58 EDT 2009


On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Ian Goldberg <ian at cypherpunks.ca> wrote:

> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 03:34:22PM -0500, Christopher Lemire wrote:
> > I thought maybe I was using an old version of pidgin-otr and libotr2, so
> I
> > downloaded and compiled the latest, yet the same problem still occurs. If
> > anyone sends me an encrypted message, I can decrypt it, but not my own.
> >
> > http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/8884/screenshotjeromecold.png
>
> Some other plugins are known not to play well with OTR.  I think
> there's one that splits up your outgoing messages into smaller chunks,
> for example?  Anyway, they intercept the message that's about to be sent
> out (the _encrypted_ message), do something with it, and display *that*,
> rather than displaying the message the user typed.
>
>   - Ian
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Thanks, that fixed it. I disabled to separate text plugin. Unfortunately now
I can not send long messages on other protocols than jabber.

-- 
Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire at gmail.com>
Ubuntu 64 bit Linux Raid Level 0
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