Summary: | After an OTR attempt in AOL IM, even unencrypted messages are garbage | ||
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Product: | [Frameworks and Libraries] telepathy | Reporter: | Scott Kitterman <kde> |
Component: | text-ui | Assignee: | Telepathy Bugs <kde-telepathy-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED NOT A BUG | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | ddomenichelli, kde |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | 0.4.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | Future | ||
Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Scott Kitterman
2012-07-17 15:44:18 UTC
I'm not sure I understand completely. You talked to a contact - all was fine(?) He started OTR - you got garbage I'm not sure what you expect to happen, OTR sits on top of a protocol, if the other person sends you nonsense, we'll show nonsense. OTR is designed such that we can't decrypt it :) Did the other person then stop using OTR? Yes. As you can see from the accompanying Kopete session, the OTR stopped, but the telepathy session remained garbaged. Thanks for the report, but it must be the other session at fault. There's no way we'd be showing messages like OTR encrypted messages if the other client wasn't sending them. If you test in Empathy (which shares our backends and also does not have OTR) and get different behaviour, please reopen this, and we will do everything we can to fix it. There's some recent progress on OTR on the upstream telepathy mailing list: http://www.mail-archive.com/telepathy@lists.freedesktop.org/msg05698.html so maybe we will get OTR sometime. The OTR implementation of your client is broken, if the other side doesn't support OTR it shouldn't send encrypted messages. If you were connected at the same time with telepathy and kopete, that could be the problem (I don't know if you can do it with aol, but you can with xmpp). Kopete aknowledged OTR and started receiving the encrypted messages, that were received by telepathy as well, but it cannot decrypt them. I did some test with kopete trying to initiate an OTR session and our client behaves correctly. The only issue is that "<b>xxxxxx@kdetalk.net</b> has requested an <a href="http://otr.cypherpunks.ca/">Off-the-Record private conversation</a>. However, you do not have a plugin to support that. See <a href="http://otr.cypherpunks.ca/">http://otr.cypherpunks.ca/</a> for more information." is not rendered. |