[Psi-devel] Off-the-Record Messaging

[Timo Engel]

On 28-Jan-2007 Hal Rottenberg wrote:
> How do other IM clients handle this?  I know that Miranda and GAIM have OTR.

Gaim uses the whitespace tags. I'm not sure, but I think other clients do the
same. And if Psi is incompatible to them it would be useless for many user.


> 
> On 1/28/07, Timo Engel <timo-e at freenet.de> wrote:
>>
>> On 28-Jan-2007 Matthias Wimmer wrote:
>> > Trejkaz schrieb:
>> >> Perhaps you just need to make *this* version work as an XMPP
>> >> extension. :-)
>> >> If it became popular enough, the transports could always translate back
>> >> to
>> >> the
>> >> inline text version for legacy protocols.  And there's no particularly
>> >> good
>> >> excuse to implement a text-level protocol on top of XMPP.
>> >>
>> > +1
>>
>> If there would be an XMPP extension, I would do it as described there. But
>> currently, there is no. I don't want to write an XEP.
>> There are other messengers which talk OTR with whitespaces. I think it
>> would be good, if Psi is compatible to them.
>> If someday there is an XEP available, it's possible to recode the OTR parts
>> of
>> Psi.