[OTR-users] Pidgin-OTR: one key for each account

Paul Wouters paul at cypherpunks.ca
Mon Sep 9 10:25:01 EDT 2013


On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Titus von der Malsburg wrote:

> Newbie question: pidgin-otr generates one key for each account.  Is this
> necessary or can I edit otr.private_key to use the same key for all
> accounts?

You can use the same key. The reason for the default is that some people
might want to have different "identities" that are not linked. By using
the same key one would reveal these are really the same person.

Paul



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