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=== Plugin === | === Plugin === | ||
* [http://gajim.org/ Gajim] (Cross-platform) with [http:// | * [http://gajim.org/ Gajim] (Cross-platform) with [http://trac-plugins.gajim.org/wiki/OffTheRecordPlugin Off-The-Record Encryption for Gajim] | ||
* [http://irssi.org/ irssi] (Cross-platform) with [http://irssi-otr.tuxfamily.org/ irssi-otr] | * [http://irssi.org/ irssi] (Cross-platform) with [http://irssi-otr.tuxfamily.org/ irssi-otr] | ||
* [http://kopete.kde.org/ Kopete] (Unix-like) with [http://kopete-otr.follefuder.org/ Kopete Off-the-Record plugin] | * [http://kopete.kde.org/ Kopete] (Unix-like) with [http://kopete-otr.follefuder.org/ Kopete Off-the-Record plugin] | ||
Revision as of 17:06, 31 August 2011
Off-the-Record Messaging, commonly referred to as OTR, is a cryptographic protocol that provides strong encryption for instant messaging conversations. OTR uses a combination of the AES symmetric-key algorithm, the Diffie–Hellman key exchange, and the SHA-1 hash function. In addition to authentication and encryption, OTR provides perfect forward secrecy and malleable encryption.
Strengths
OTR allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by providing:
- Encryption
- No one else can read your instant messages.
- Authentication
- You are assured the correspondent is who you think it is.
- Deniability
- The messages you send do not have digital signatures that are checkable by a third party. Anyone can forge messages after a conversation to make them look like they came from you. However, during a conversation, your correspondent is assured the messages he sees are authentic and unmodified.
- Perfect forward secrecy
- If you lose control of your private keys, no previous conversation is compromised.
Client support
Native
- Adium (Mac OS X)
- BitlBee (Cross-platform)
- CenterIM (Unix-like)
- climm (Unix-like)
- Gibberbot (Android)
- Jitsi (Cross-platform)
- MCabber (Unix-like)
- Phoenix Viewer, a Second Life client (Cross-platform)
- Vacuum IM (Cross-platform)
Plugin
- Gajim (Cross-platform) with Off-The-Record Encryption for Gajim
- irssi (Cross-platform) with irssi-otr
- Kopete (Unix-like) with Kopete Off-the-Record plugin
- Miranda IM (Microsoft Windows) with MirOTR - OTR for Miranda IM!
- Pidgin (Cross-platform) with OTR plugin for Pidgin
- Psi+ (Cross-platform) with OTR Plugin for Psi+
- Trillian (Microsoft Windows) with Trillian OTR
- WeeChat (Cross-platform) with weechat-otr
- XChat (Cross-platform) with xchat-otr