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

[Titus von der Malsburg]

paul at cypherpunks.ca writes:
> 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.

Ok, thanks for the clarification.  I was confused because the gui forces
me to have one identity per account.  Feature request: have a list of
identities and a list of accounts.  Allow the user to assign identities
to accounts as they please.

  Titus