On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 06:56:50AM -0700, Howard Chu wrote: > Jonas Wielicki wrote: > >On 02.07.2013 15:35, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > >>I seem to be more and more going to a PGP model, and have > >>to wonder if it's possible to use my GPG key for OTR. > > > >Honestly I think that the absence of many of the PGP features is the > >strength of OTR. OTR is so incredibly easy and, in my opinion, the only > >current example of strong crypto done right (from the user experience > >perspective). > > > >Adding complications such as key sync, key management, revocation etc. > >is not what I consider useful for the general case. > > Indeed, it completely misses the point. OTR provides repudiable > communication. Unifying all your keys would weaken or destroy that > property.
I'm not sure I follow that, and I don't see how OTR can give you that. If I first go and authenticate you and log all the communiation I think I have non-repudiation. The only thing I see OTR give you is that the communication is private. Kurt _______________________________________________ OTR-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-dev
