[OTR-dev] Handling of CTCPs and /me in IRC clients

2012-12-17 Thread Florian Bruhin
Heya, I apologize if someone in the CC is already on this mailinglist. There are currently some plugins for IRC clients to use OTR, the official one for pidgin[0], one for weechat[1], and one for irssi/xchat/weechat[2]. Potentially this could also affect Adium[3], CenterIM[4], Kopete[5] and

Re: [OTR-dev] Handling of CTCPs and /me in IRC clients

2012-12-17 Thread Greg Troxel
Not entirely related to your query, but I have long found it broken that presence is exposed to servers in the clear. Of course, to fix this one would probably have to have dummy presence sent at a constant rate. - When sending a CTCP TYPING, pass it unencrypted since it's probably

Re: [OTR-dev] irssi-otr 1.0.0-alpha1 authentication interop issue with pidgin-otr ?

2012-12-17 Thread Jurre van Bergen
Hi Paul, Thanks, you can track the bug here: https://github.com/cryptodotis/irssi-otr/issues/20 I'll look into it. Jurre On 12/14/2012 06:39 PM, Paul Wouters wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Paul Wouters wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, David Goulet wrote: https://github.com/cryptodotis/irssi-otr

Re: [OTR-dev] Handling of CTCPs and /me in IRC clients

2012-12-17 Thread Greg Troxel
CTCP TYPING is (to my knowledge) only used in bitlbee, which is (as said) an IRC to IM gateway. So when Alice (using bitlbee) sends a CTCP TYPING Thanks. I didn't understand that, and guessed that IRC had a native i-am-typing mechanism like jabber. I withdraw my semi-objection.

Re: [OTR-dev] Handling of CTCPs and /me in IRC clients

2012-12-17 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, Greg Troxel wrote: CTCP TYPING is (to my knowledge) only used in bitlbee, which is (as said) an IRC to IM gateway. So when Alice (using bitlbee) sends a CTCP TYPING Thanks. I didn't understand that, and guessed that IRC had a native i-am-typing mechanism like jabber.