[OTR-users] Encrypted File Transfer

Nathan of Guardian nathan at guardianproject.info
Wed Mar 26 10:01:32 EDT 2014


On 03/26/2014 05:14 AM, Jurre van Bergen wrote:
> On 03/26/2014 02:27 AM, Ben Silberstein wrote:
>> > If I send a file in Pidgin using  XMPP while OTR is engaged in an
>> > encrypted session is that communication encrypted as well?
> No, it will simply be send over XMPP without an OTR layer.

I sure wish we could get more adoption for either our OTRDATA spec
(https://dev.guardianproject.info/projects/gibberbot/wiki/OTRDATA_Specifications)
or Crypto.cat's proposal for
https://github.com/cryptocat/cryptocat/wiki/OTR-Encrypted-File-Transfer-Specification

Is it possible for the libotr plugin to intercept file transfer activity
in Pidgin or Instabird?



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