On 06/06/2013 06:18 AM, Abel Luck wrote: > Michael Rogers: >> some quick tests with major IM networks to >> check that you can push a large amount of data in-band before going to >> the effort of designing a protocol. I suspect many will drop the >> connection or even disable the account if you appear to be flooding. >> > > That's a good idea, but, there are other reasons for wanting in-band > data than just file transfer. > > For example, Guardian Project is implementing key synchronization among > devices using in-band data. This likely won't get caught by rate-limiters.
We've tested some and found that maximum packet sizes are pretty big, like 20kb, and that in the course of our testing, we repeatedly transferred 10x-100x as much data as we'd need for a complete key sync. hc _______________________________________________ OTR-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-dev
