[OTR-users] Maddening problem with OTR that I can't solve

[Mike Minor]

It sounds like the message was encrypted, just not encrypted to you - meaning it was encrypted to a key you do not have access to on the whonix computer but rather the key that is on the Mac.

> On Oct 20, 2013, at 8:36 AM, Mousy <motormouse at countermail.com> wrote:
> 
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> Hello,
> 
> I've been trying to chase down this problem for about a week, and I'm
> getting no closer to a solution.   I'm really new to OTR so it's
> entirely probable that I'm missing something really obvious, but any
> help would be greatly appreciated :-)
> 
> I've been able to set up and use OTR really successfully on Adium, but
> whenever I've tried to do it using Pidgin on Whonix,  I'm getting the
> following error message whenever I tried to send a message to somebody:
> 
> (15:07:41) The following message received from mrfakename at dukgo.com
> was not encrypted: [?OTR:?
> 
> Everything after that in the error message appears to be the encrypted
> version of the message, rather than the plaintext I was expecting.
> 
> I've been trying to find the solution, but I've no idea  what could be
> causing it.  The OS is fully updated, I have the latest version of
> Pidgin and I've downloaded the most recent version of OTR.
> 
> Can anybody else point me in the direction of the solution please, I'd
> really like to people to use this.  :-)
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Mousey
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