[OTR-users] OTR mentioned in Snowden documents?

Nathan of Guardian nathan at guardianproject.info
Thu Sep 12 13:32:33 EDT 2013


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On 09/12/2013 01:21 PM, The Doctor wrote:
> What about a vulnerability in the IM client (not the OTR plugin)
> that allows an attacker to grab messages post-decryption or
> pre-encryption (ala Skype surveillanceware)?

Or as has been already pointed out perhaps, a vulnerability in the
PRNG that generates the key in the first place:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2013/08/some-securerandom-thoughts.html

Should that case of "oops" be re-opened to determine who committed the
so-called mistake?

+n
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