(In reply to comment #56) > From a (very) quick look on the Gabble branch, it seems that all the channel > messages are now sent through OTR (if built with it), even when it has not > been activated. Is that really what we want?
Yes, that's what pidgin-otr does as well. That's because all received messages needs to be parsed by OTR first because it will catch message starting with "?OTR?" because when receiving that it means the other side wants to start an OTR session. In that case the message is considered as internal OTR protocol message and it returns ignore=true so we don't dispaly that to the user. We could avoid passing sending messages to OTR when session is not started indeed. I didn't do that because OTR will just return a copy of the initial message so it doesn't change anything (just wasting CPU cycles), and I prefer not adding any conditions to make damn sure we never have the case where we send something that didn't got encrypted first. > Also, shouldn't we use it only for contact channels? I don't think OTR can be used on MUC, or at least that's out of scope for now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867 Title: empathy needs to support OTR encryption Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface: Confirmed Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Invalid Status in Telepathy framework - library: Confirmed Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “libtelepathy” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “empathy” package in Fedora: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: empathy Hello, I just tried empathy (the Intrepid version) and it looked very solid and stable. There were a few minor things that could be improved (e.g. automatically resizing the contact list), but that is not the topic here. The reason why I won't switch to empathy from pidgin is the missing OTR support (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ ). This is a really important feature because no one should read your messages. There were others with the same idea (links at the bottom). Would be so great if it could support that important encryption standard. Thanks for helping out! Links: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/253452/comments/2 http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2008-September/001479.html http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16891 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/296867/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
