On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:54:06PM -0700, Chris Ballinger wrote: > I noticed that a lot of people these days don't use dedicated chat clients > anymore and tend to use in-browser chat interfaces on platforms like Gmail > or Facebook. It's difficult to get people to change their behavior, > especially to get people to decide to run some 3rd party desktop software > with which they might not be comfortable. Also, a lot of people seem to use > Gmail chat from places where they aren't allowed to install 3rd party > software. > > Would it be possible/feasible to write browser extensions (Chrome, Safari, > FF) that use Emscripten (LLVM to JS compiler) to compile libotr, and then > hook into the DOM for Gmail or Facebook (or possibly any two user-defined > text fields?) for "seamless" in-browser OTR?
FireGPG similarily tried to integrate GnuPG encryption with webmails, and was found to be an impossible thing to do in a secure manner. Please have a look at the following page for a detailed rationale: <https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/FireGPG_susceptible_to_devastating_attacks/> -- Ague
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