On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Ian Goldberg wrote:

Lots of people have considered that, but there's a major obstacle: how
do you know the libotr plugin is actually being used, and it's not just
sending plaintext to GTalk?  As far as I know, there's no "secure
chrome" mechanism extensions can use to confirm to the user that the
text is being typed directly to the extension, and that other javascript
running on the same page can't intercept the keystrokes.

I think similarly, cryptocat is trying to do this, but with homebrow
crypto on top....

https://crypto.cat/

One of their dev's has talked about otr, so i think they are aware of
it.

There is definitely a need for something that can be reasonably
downloaded and trusted on an unknown (internet cafe) machine, but as
Ian said, it's problematic.

Paul
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