-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/24/13 6:14 AM, Vlad Ion wrote: > Dear OTR Devs, > > I am using ORT with Pidgin and I seem to be losing messages > whenever the wifi connection is acting up. > > It would be absolutely amazing if OTR could also do some hash of > the message and expect a reply with that hash within 5-10 seconds > and a failure to receive that hash would instantly let the sending > party know their message was not delivered. This would drastically > increase the reliability of these encrypted messages. > > Is anyone working on a simple delivery acknowledgement method to > ensure that messages get to the other end and that any such failure > to do so is reported?
IMHO the OTR layer is the wrong place to be building in reliability. In XMPP, we depend on TCP but also have built a stream-level reliability layer: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0198.html Do you experience these problems on an XMPP system, or on AOL or another proprietary IM system like that? Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRKspvAAoJEOoGpJErxa2pfiMP/0LwwGa+cAgMCuyY6xVKRLn8 mije3+Kt0ygyvdJred+A73yArJ42wJfhFxKYrk1Eqot2r3OELYiALzxA6VPSBGPp q2hxPNaIC9LK+6067bgpsTI6L7u2z/KWe77chshBTMI+SdRsVbi9EAZRZF1MvLtZ GwaP0DGBGa9QFZRZZLfbiWB/wVcFgOJilEgY37L2vbBCVv8GBeRH1oP+a2MgfMhF pJWm0FvMB3ssbsEtfP3sOxx/87xXbyZExvQGDkCyQZxlwpTfQUfxY+brcsUB10wR AZa90j6IYUNw1iJ9BZwQizKbXnLrIx9pSC4/ss2KKoVd4HrLB5tT6l4x03Iou+Rg LvYH45ufnm1nx0Yop7c/8UmsXW/6eOEvYM5oGa0GXt2yv29+Qbrrkh7sgJlpjSUJ qJWtV5yoPY40xTS+fXtcZahudUKF5xvVZv69rM/g/qCwWl4LxgeDZ3OGWm6VogGg XKp8QlP0c9SptCfubXrnkf2kX2MusmKSP+4toRpRSikrbJ1ICcK6aP5E9RYdVAFp beUbqTrr4Rzzl/24hGVkwvlJZn4IJxTUIluUR51OlNe1AbBLT5IoalOyPo99PM1s 7rb87LfhltO0wV70OXWiU1fsXdfH7TBTrCTij6YwVbCz9v5Nw8UdcRQwwBbcIWYI sOJCKj5F4w8d7LDcGqW2 =Gp7N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ OTR-dev mailing list OTR-dev@lists.cypherpunks.ca http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-dev
