[Konversation-devel] [Bug 254752] New: konversation should have Off-the-record (OTR) support

[lurker]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254752

           Summary: konversation should have Off-the-record (OTR) support
           Product: konversation
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: encryption
        AssignedTo: wordsizzle at gmail.com
        ReportedBy: lurker at lavabit.com
                CC: konversation-devel at kde.org


Version:           unspecified (using KDE 1.2) 
OS:                All

Off-the-record[1] (OTR) has pretty much become the standard for setting up
end-to-end private IM chats. Other IRC clients supporting it are irssi/xchat,
adium and pidgin, to my knowledge.

Its protocol is very well-designed, offering encryption/confidentiality and
authentication, but also deniability (your logs cannot be proved to be correct)
or perfect forward secrecy. There's a support library (libotr) which should
make implementation pretty easy. For reference, the irssi implementation is ~2k
lines of C but it lacks a GUI and is completely command based, i.e. /otr
generate-key, /otr start, etc. And a GUI would also be very nice, preferably
something that emulates how pidgin does it since it's kinda the reference
implementation (around ~5k lines of C).

[1] http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/

Reproducible: Didn't try

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