Hi, (I'm sorry if this was already brought up - I had no idea which keywords to pick when searching for such thread. Also, I cross-posted this message to de...@pidgin.im.)
One of my friends constantly complains about OTR giving him no feedback when he sends messages to me while I'm offline over XMPP (Pidgin). Then, when I turn on the computer, I have no OTR session currently active and all I'm getting is an error message that I got a message that I cannot decrypt. This makes me ask him "what have you sent two days ago when I was offline" at best and at worst, messages get lost. I'm getting the impression that there should be support either from the library or the UI to make this easier. Another problem that we are constantly getting is that when we try to communicate after a few hours of inactivity, it often happens that one of us switched between the machines (e.g. by suspending the laptop and turning on the PC that also uses the same XMPP address) and the session key is no longer valid. To avoid this, I usually manually refresh the OTR session whenever significant amount of time passed, but I'm getting the impression that I'm walking around a problem inherent to OTR. Perhaps there should be some "pinging" mechanism in place or when a undecipherable message gets received, an error message should be sent? The client could then discard such an error if he keeps a trusted session on another channel, basically doing what I'm doing when the problem happens. What do you guys think about this? Cheers, d33tah
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