OTR in Pidgin?

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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Ian Goldberg <iang at cs.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:29:02PM -0800, Jeff Connelly wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Casey Ho <pidgin at caseyho.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >From a cryptography standpoint, OTR appears to be the best solution
> > > available.  Pidgin-encryption does not offer a mechanism for secure
> > > key exchange, whereas OTR uses Diffie-Hellman.  Pidgin-Paranoia uses
> > > one time pads, which have historically been vulnerable because no
> > > computer can be truly random.
> >
> > It is relatively easy to build a true (hardware) random number generator
> to
> > create one-time pads: http://imotp.sourceforge.net/noise.pdf
> >
> > Of course, the average user won't do this, but for the greatest security,
> it
> > is IMHO the best option.
>
> One-time pads are the best option?  You're kidding, right?  How do you
> propose to share the key material with all your buddies?
>
>   - Ian
>
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