[OTR-users] Happy 10th anniversary!

[Jurre van Bergen]

Hey,

OTR has come a long way, whoa! Congratulations to those involved over
the last decade and on to the next one! Seems the possibility to be able
to whisper is more needed then ever.

All the best,
Jurre

On 10/26/2014 07:18 PM, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> Today is the tenth anniversary of the very first release of OTR!
>
> Thanks so much to everyone who has helped develop, deploy, and support
> OTR over the years!
>
> The original README is below, for historical humour value.  ;-)
>
>    - Ian
>
>
>                  Off-the-Record plugin for GAIM
> 		    v0.10, Oct 26, 2004
>
> INSTALLATION
>
> To compile, edit the Makefile to change the GAIM_SOURCE variable to
> point to the Gaim source tree.  You will also need to install the
> development libraries for GTK and GDK.  Then you should be able to
> type 'make' and produce otr-plugin.so, which you can load as a 
> plugin into Gaim.
>
> USAGE
>
> The first time you use the plugin, it will generate you a private 
> key.  The plugin will not get involved in conversations until you send
> your buddy a message that says "[enc=on]".  This will initiate a secure
> session with your buddy.  Once the session is established, both you and
> your buddy will see "[enc=on!]" displayed and the rest of the
> conversation will be encrypted.
>
> If you see a public key for a buddy for the first time, the fingerprint 
> is displayed for you to check.  For the future, all conversations with
> that user will be carried out encrypted by default.
>
> NOTES
>
> This software is still in early status, so there are many bugs and
> issues.  Here are some of the issues:
>
> * We are in the middle of porting the plugin to gaim 1.0; if you are
>   using that version, you should include -DGAIM_10 in the CFLAGS, but
>   there are currently some problems loading the plugin.  The latest
>   version of Gaim that we tested with is 0.64.
>
> * Error handling is very poor, most incorrect values for the protocol
>   will cause an assertion failure (sorry).  Most importantly, if your 
>   buddy goes offline and loses session state, your conversation will
>   afterwards crash.
>
> * The interface to encrypted conversations isn't identified specially
>   by Gaim, so it's possible that you may think a conversation is
>   encrypted when it's not.  
>
> * Some differences with the paper: we use Blowfish encryption instead of 
>   AES since OpenSSL doesn't support AES.  Also, we have not implemented
>   the automatic detection of the OTR plugin in your buddies.
>
> * In the future, there will be a way to import, export, and otherwise
>   manage buddy keys.
>
> * There are probably other bugs.
>
> So beware before using this, since it likely won't be long before your
> Gaim will crash.  Please let us know if you are interested in having a
> more usable plugin, if you have any suggestions or find any additional
> problems not listed here.  Also, if you can help us port this to other
> IM clients (e.g. iChat or Trillian), we would be happy to work with you.
>
> Nikita Borisov and Ian Goldberg, otr at cypherpunks.ca
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