[OTR-users] Pretty-please standardize OTR signature storage, per OS.

[Tamme Schichler]

Am 13.09.2013 19:36, schrieb subharo at hushmail.com:
> Hello Tamme,
>
> On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 21:49:34 -0400 "Tamme Schichler"
> <tammeschichler at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> How does
>> "Off-the-Record Address Book" sound?
>
> Hmm, it's a bit long.  How about "otr-stor" (or "otrstore")?  It's
> decently short, unique, memorable, and currently unused (when I do
> a DuckDuckGo search for software already using that name).  It'll
> also be easy and intuitive to spot a process with this name (from a
> Process Monitor application).
>
> -Subharo
>

Hello Subharo,

that would work well for the Unix package and the executable name. When 
registering the program with Windows (for uninstallation), it would be 
better to write out the "Off-the-Record" part. The programs don't have a 
description, just a help link and maybe a short comment, here, so its 
usual to have long, descriptive "package" names. Gpg4win is an outlier 
in that regard, as it never mentions the long form of its name. 
Everything that's not a game spells out clearly what it does, especially 
if it's a framework or installed library (programs targeted only at 
developers use some acronyms though).

I wrote a small test service over the last two days or so. It still 
needs a bit of refactoring because I don't know how to do certain things 
in Python yet, but it already works as basic key/value-list store. It 
only runs on TCP loopback so far because I can't use domain sockets here 
and named pipes are not very well integrated in Python it seems. (The 
Win32 Extensions for Python probably have the necessary functions, but 
the interface is too low-level for me.)

What's missing are basically modules that set up a domain socket or 
named pipe with the necessary security and start a new thread for each 
connection stream. I don't know whether I can write either of them, 
because they involve systems I'm entirely unfamiliar with.


Before I can continue with the implementation I need to know which data 
needs to be stored and which commands are necessary though. I will 
upload what I currently have after removing a few potential errors.

-Tamme