[OTR-users] OTR mentioned in Snowden documents?

[Paul Wouters]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2013, Mike Minor wrote:

> "Encrypted chat - Available with chat programs like Adium or with software added to programs like AOL Instant Messenger, providing 'end to end' encryption, in which the data cannot be decrypted at any point along the transfer (even by the messaging service)."

> If the NSA is claiming they can decrypt OTR, what possible attack vectors do the readers of this mailing list suppose could be viable targets?  Our OS? Our RNG's? Our CPU's?

I bet most people, when seeing OTR problems (like the old multi-client
OTR wars) will disable OTR so they can talk. That's simply the only
thing the NSA needs to do for most people. Just scramble the packets.

Paul