On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 09:19:21AM -0700, Robin Hobbensiefken wrote: > They were past encrypted messages sent using OTR in Pidgin over our Google > accounts. They still show up in our google chat logs but they're encrypted > and all start with ?OTR: and then the encrypted message. I figured they > wouldn't be recoverable but I thought I'd ask just in case. Would have been > nice to be able to see them for personal reasons but my friend and I knew > what we were getting into when we decided to use OTR. Such is life.
That's correct; if neither you nor your friend configured your pidgin to log the plaintext messages, then they're not recoverable. Which of course is the point; the forward secrecy properties of OTR would be lost if someone capturing your computer after the fact could recover old conversations. -- Ian Goldberg Professor and University Research Chair Cheriton School of Computer Science University of Waterloo _______________________________________________ OTR-users mailing list OTR-users@lists.cypherpunks.ca http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-users
