[OTR-users] Reasonably secure conference / chat rooms now?

Christoph A. casmls at gmail.com
Mon Aug 30 11:52:40 EDT 2010


On 06/21/2010 10:45 PM, Matthew Van Gundy wrote:
> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>>>> Does anyone know of a way, using OTR related or other protocols, to do
>>>> reasonably secure multi-party chat?
>>>> I found the mpOTR paper - http://www.cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/mpotr.pdf -
>>>> but could not find any software that implements the protocol.
> 
> The cryptographic protocols we presented in that paper makes certain
> assumptions about the underlying communication medium.  I'm finishing
> work on the underlying protocol over this summer.

Could you elaborate on 'certain assumptions about the underlying
communication medium' if they contain more then Broadcast() and Send()
as defined in chapter 4.1?

Are these assumptions somehow requirements to the underlying IM protocol
or will mpOTR implement them on top of the underlying IM?

kind regards,
Christoph

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