Nathan Freitas: > On 07/14/2013 10:40 PM, adrelanos wrote: >> There is no such thing such as OTR for voice, video or files. > > If you are on the otr-dev list, you might have seen some discussion on > improvised support for a data channel in OTR v3, to use with the ability > to generate an "extra" symmetric key: > > "OTR version 3 defines an additional symmetric key that can be derived > by the communicating parties to use for application-specific purposes, > such as file transfer, voice encryption, etc. When one party wishes to > use the extra symmetric key, he or she creates a type 8 TLV attached to > a Data Message (see above). The key itself is then derived using the > same "secbytes" used to compute the encryption and MAC keys used to > protect the Data Message. The extra symmetric key is derived by > calculating h2(0xFF) and keeping the entire 256 bits, using the same > definition of h2 as above." > > http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/Protocol-v3-4.0.0.html > > We are actively developing this as part of our OTR implementation in > Gibberbot for Android, v12, and have most of it working > (https://github.com/guardianproject/Gibberbot/pulls). > > Our plan is to use this to implement media sharing, and even a > push-to-talk feature, that is all securely tunneled through OTR. > > So, in short, there will soon be such a thing as OTR for voice, video > and files. :) > > +n
No, I wasn't aware on those good news. Thanks for sharing! _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
