bitlbee and Usable OTR
October 2nd, 2009Are you using bitlbee? Are your friends annoying you insisting on asking you nicely to use OTR? Then use this branch: http://khjk.org/bitlbee-otr/
But, what if your friends have a RL aren’t online and you still want to spam send them some nice message? Once OTR established a context, it won’t let go, so you will still send them encrypted messages, but once they come back, they probably won’t be able to read it. Sucks. But! There is hope! Use this small patch: otr.patch
Now bitlbee will only send encrypted messages when the recipient is actually online and otherwise fall back on plaintext. A little bit less secure, a whole lot more convenient. Yay!
October 3rd, 2009 at 21:18
Hooray! :)
offline msgs > encrypted waste