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

Mousy motormouse at countermail.com
Wed Oct 23 04:19:36 EDT 2013


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Mike, you're a genius!  It's working and my super secret conversations
can now be both super, and secret!

Many thanks for your help guys :-)

Mousey

On 20/10/2013 21:18, Mike Minor wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
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