On 8/25/11 2:30 AM, Sven Moritz Hallberg wrote: > On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:20:26 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 8/22/11 3:03 PM, Sven Moritz Hallberg wrote: >>> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:12:36 +0200, Jonathan Schleifer >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> There was a lot of code, but libotr just wants to be that >>>> three-line drop in, so you lose a lot of flexibility which you need to >>>> properly support XMPP with all it's features. >>> >>> out of curiosity, what are examples of those XMPP features? >> >> XMPP is used for many things other than sending human-readable IMs. >> [...] >> >> Ideally, a future version of OTR would have a mode that enables people >> to send this kind of information, instead of just XML character data >> like the "foo" in <message><body>foo</body></message>. > > this would necessarily be an XMPP-specific adaptation. there's nothing > wrong with that, i think it would be a good idea to make one. but it's > separate from the transport-agnostic "base case" currently catered to by > libotr. > > i was wondering if there are XMPP specialities that actually interfere > with implementing that text-IM-only base case?
The text-only-IM case works fine right now in XMPP. But we'd like to encrypt more than just text-only IM. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ _______________________________________________ OTR-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-dev
