On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 22:41 -0600, Reşat SABIQ wrote: > Thanks Xavier. OTR=P2P encryption for messaging. > > A few follow-up questions: > 1. Could somebody please confirm that selecting > Encryption required (TLS/SSL) > leads to video and audio streams being encrypted as well?
No > 3. Will future OTR support also include OTR (p2p) encryption for video > and audio? No, encryption for calls is SRTP and is a completely separate topic. > > Thanks a bunch. > > 07.05.2010 01:29, Xavier Claessens yazğan: > > TLS/SSL will encrypt your messages from you to gtalk server. But gtalk > > server will decrypt it to send to your destination contact (and > > eventually re-encrypt). That means that Google can read your > > conversations. > > > > OTR is a p2p encryption, so only the end destination can decrypt the > > message, any people between you and your contact will only see > > encrypted data. In that case Google won't be able to read what you say. > > > > So IMO the question is: "do you trust your server", if not you should > > use OTR, otherwise TLS/SSL is enough. tbh if you don't trust your > > sever, you already lost... > > > > Xavier Claessens. > > _______________________________________________ > telepathy mailing list > telepathy@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy -- Olivier Crête olivier.cr...@collabora.co.uk
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