[resent with correct From: line] Hi OTR devs,
since I am new on this mailing list, here a short introduction of myself: My name is Mirco Bauer and I live in Hamburg, Germany. For living I am a Linux system engineer and work on FOSS projects [0] in my spare time. I am the author of Smuxi [1], an opensource multi-protocol text messaging chat client. I would like to make secure chat support in Smuxi a first-class feature. IRC alone can't provide this, no matter how you put it. And this is where OTR comes into play. Over the years I have seen many flawed attempts to make secure messaging. I didn't support any of them because I prefer no-security over false-security. Since Smuxi is written in C#, I will need either an C# OTR implementation or a C# binding for libotr. Since this is crypto stuff, you should be a crypto expert writing crypto code. As I am no crypto expert and don't plan to become one in the near time, this leaves making a C# binding for libotr. A quick look at the header files of libotr reveals some smallish issues/questions: I wonder where the public headers/APIs are. Are all .h files considered public APIs, including all defined symbols in them? There are also header-only APIs that are hard to writing bindings for, because they will require writing extra C code, e.g.: https://github.com/off-the-record/libotr/blob/master/src/proto.h#L30 some of them are probably easy to solve by defining them as enums in C# itself instead of binding to the C code, but it also looks like there are cases where it could be insecure to have possibly diverged definitions instead of shared code, which is the main point of a shared library. So far I have not written any code, but I would like to get some things sorted, so I can. :) That's all for now, thank you for making OTR! [0] https://github.com/meebey?tab=repositories [1] https://smuxi.im/ -- Best regards, Mirco 'meebey' Bauer FOSS Developer mee...@meebey.net https://www.meebey.net/ Debian Developer mee...@debian.org http://www.debian.org/ GNOME Foundation Member mmmba...@gnome.org http://www.gnome.org/ .NET Foundation Advisory Council Member: http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/ PGP-Key ID 0xEEF946C8 https://meebey.net/pubkey.asc _______________________________________________ OTR-dev mailing list OTR-dev@lists.cypherpunks.ca http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-dev
