[OTR-users] Does OTR+Pidgin encrypt file transfers?

[Ian Goldberg]

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 04:44:47PM -0400, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
> Does OTR+Pidgin encrypt file transfers?  I am under the impression that
> it does NOT.

That's correct.  The protocol was extended to support exporting
symmetric keys for that purpose, but the integration with pidgin never
happened, if I remember correctly.
-- 
Ian Goldberg
Professor and University Research Chair
Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo