Re: Encryption Plugin ?

Hi Alan,

Nice to meet you. Here's another thought. I spent all night looking for 
alternatives for secure IM'ing, and I found something neat: ORT

http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/

ORT ("Off the record") is written by Ian Goldberg from UC Berkeley:

http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/~iang/

You can download the paper, it's only 8 pages and quite understandable. 
ORT is very impressive, very clever. It has one neat feature GPG doesn't 
have: plausible deniability.

With GPG sugbatyres, if someone manages to read the communication, not 
only do they know what you said, but they have mathematical proof that you 
said it!  With ORT, if someone can verify a signature, they can also 
forge it trivially. So they can't prove you said anything.

So, GPG is better for contracts, and OTR for "off the record"  :-)
conversation.

There is a library (LGPL) and a GAIM plugin (GPL). I haven't looked at 
them. So I have no idea if making a Fire plugin would be easy or hard.

Cheers,
Daniel.


On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:41:02AM -0700, Alan Humpherys wrote:
> Daniel,
> 
> Fire is not based upon GAIM (although the two do share some information 
> from the AIM libraries.)
> 
> Fire has it's own mechanism for secure communication, based on GPG, 
> which is not directly compatible with the gaim-e or game-encrypt 
> plugins.
> 
> It is on my todo list to work with them to create a common/compatible 
> system for encryption that all of the third party IM tools can use.  
> However, such work has not yet commenced in earnest.
> 
> Alan

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