All encyrption support is currently provided in the form of 3rd party plugins. I do not see this changing soon.
luke On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 07:02:08AM -0000, Sec wrote: > Hi, > > Currently the encryption plugin (and the OTR plugin) are excellent and allow > assymetric encryption for key exchange. > > Both these require that the other party is logged in for sending encrypted > messages. > > Is it possible to add a small feature that does the following. I am guessing > this should very simply to add given that the current encryption does far > beyond this : > > - Let A and B be the parties > - Assume A and B have already talked using the plugin once before > > - Now B is offline and A wants to send a message to B with encryption > - The plugin now uses the previously used Assymetric key pair AND SYMMETRIC > key pair for encryption. (Perhaps use of Assymetric key pair is not needed > and directly the last negotiated symmetric key is used), and sends A's > message to B > - Next time B logs in, he sees A's message already decrypted (or prompted > for) with the last used keys > > - THIS IS AN EXCELLENT WAY TO SEND MESSAGES WHILE THE OTHER PARTY IS OFFLINE > AND WOULD BE FANTASTIC FEATURE ADDITION. I know there is pounce and offline > emulation - but these don't really work unless A is also logged in. Let's say > A wants to send an encrypted message to B and A does not plan to log in, then > these emulation methods won't work. > > - I have done an exhaustive search and could not find anything reliable that > does this while also supporting the assymetric (RSA) that pigdin encryption > or OTR do. SO THIS SIMPLE FEATURE WILL BEAT ALL OTHER IM ENCRYPTORS ! > > > Thanks a billion, > John > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > [email protected] > http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [email protected] http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
