Re: [OTR-dev] Multiple accounts

2013-07-02 Thread Callme Whatiwant
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 10:12:10AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > > > Not true - OTR's signing key to authenticate a session is similar to > > OpenPGP. The difference is that session keys are authenticated, not > > messsage content, and repudia

Re: [OTR-dev] Multiple accounts

2013-07-02 Thread Callme Whatiwant
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough about the two desirable qualities: On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Callme Whatiwant wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:48 AM, 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 wo

Re: [OTR-dev] Multiple accounts

2013-07-02 Thread Callme Whatiwant
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:48 AM, 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 > strengt

Re: [OTR-dev] finch & otr

2013-07-02 Thread kardan
Am Sun, 30 Jun 2013 10:31:32 -0400 schrieb Ian Goldberg : > On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 08:55:32PM +0200, kardan wrote: > > Thanks! These are the details I am not aware of. Here is the next > > one: > > > > export LIBS=/usr/include/libotr/ > > I think the above line is wrong. LIBS should point to l

Re: [OTR-dev] Multiple accounts

2013-07-02 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On 07/02/2013 10:12 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Howard Chu writes: > >> Jonas Wielicki wrote: >>> 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

Re: [OTR-dev] Multiple accounts

2013-07-02 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 10:12:10AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Not true - OTR's signing key to authenticate a session is similar to > OpenPGP. The difference is that session keys are authenticated, not > messsage content, and repudiability (word?) is achieved by using > symmetric MACs and discl

Re: [OTR-dev] Multiple accounts

2013-07-02 Thread Kurt Roeckx
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

Re: [OTR-dev] Multiple accounts

2013-07-02 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 03:48:26PM +0200, 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

Re: [OTR-dev] Multiple accounts

2013-07-02 Thread Greg Troxel
Howard Chu writes: > Jonas Wielicki wrote: >> 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

Re: [OTR-dev] Multiple accounts

2013-07-02 Thread Howard Chu
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

Re: [OTR-dev] Multiple accounts

2013-07-02 Thread Jonas Wielicki
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 c

Re: [OTR-dev] Multiple accounts

2013-07-02 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 11:12:53AM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > I'm not an OTR dev, but I spend a lot of time thinking about these issues > since I'm working on OTR key syncing. I think the reason you outlined, not > automatically cryptographically linking accounts is a good one. I t