[OTR-users] Request: Pidgin plugin should request refresh if other user offline

[Matthias Andree]

Here's the situation:

0. Linux Pidgin with 3.2.0 otr plugin on either end, using Jabber.

1. Users Alice and Bob negotiate a secure connection and chat for a while.
2. Bob logs off
3. Alice sends a message, which gets encrypted because of (1)
4. Bob logs on from a different machine and sees there was an encrypted
message he couldn't decrypt.
=> boom.

I think I recall that under such circumstances, the overall setup at one
point used to automatically retransmit Alice's message after
re-negotiating the encryption, but this doesn't happen here.

Proposal: the plugin should tell Alice that Bob has disconnected and she
should terminate the private conversation and re-establish it.

Thank you.

-- 
Matthias Andree