[OTR-users] Visible Metadata?

[Brian Morrison]

On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 14:31:33 +0200
Robert Pollak <robert.pollak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do I understand correctly that the use of OTR messaging does not hide
> (e.g. from the NSA or other network sniffers :) the fact that some
> encrypted communication has taken place between two visible IP
> adresses?

No it doesn't hide the data, what it does is, provided that the end
users don't keep any plaintext logs, is to make the communication
plausibly deniable due to the forward secrecy from ephemeral keys and
hence all possible plaintexts in a session being equally likely.

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Brian Morrison

                "I am not young enough to know everything"
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