[OTR-users] Offline messaging and file transfer

[karolas at mail.md]

Hi. I have some questions, can anyone help?

1- How to safely use the
Pidgin OTR plugin to work with pounces and the Offline Message Emulation
plugin (which saves offline messages as pounces)? I have the impression
that the messages may go through automatically when the two are
connected, but sometimes at the start, when you restart Pidgin for
example, the conversation begins at "Not private" and the user has to
click "Begin private conversation". But the pounces will have already
been sent by them.

2- Are file transfers encrypted by the OTR
plugin?

3- How often do I have to authenticate the other person? Here
is an extreme scenario, but if the other person's computer get stolen,
fingerprint won't change and authentication will stay too. Is the habit
of authenticating the user every day, even if not asked by the plugin,
too much?

Thanks.
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