Off The Record Private Conversation

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Jul 12, 2010, 6:00 am EDT | 1 min read
There may be times when you don’t want “the man” knowing what your IM conversations are. Today we look at an Instant Messenger plugin that will keep your conversations completely private.
Off-the-Record is a great plugin to keep your conversations private. For it to work both parties need to have the plugin installed. It works by encrypting your conversations so no one can read the IMs. The messages you sent don’t include digital signatures that can be checked by third parties. It also includes an authentication feature so you can be assured the person you’re talking to is the right one. It’s completely free under the GNU License and works with Windows, Linux, and OS X.
Off-the-Record is available for several IM clients, but we’ll show you how to use it in How-To-Geek’s favorite…Pidgin. 
Download and install Off-the-Record (OTR) following the wizard as normal, you don’t even need to close out of Pidgin.
After it’s installed, on your Buddy List go to Tools \ Plugins.
Now scroll down the plugin list and select Off-the-Record Messaging and click Configure Plugin.
Now you’ll need to generate a key and select other options. For instance you might not want to log OTR conversations for added privacy.
Private key was generated successfully…
You can choose different ways to authenticate a buddy such as Question and Answer or a Shared Secret.
After you’ve determined the authentication method you want to use, both you and your buddy need to answer the question or secret successfully and you’re conversation will change to private.
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If the authentication doesn’t match, you’ll receive a message indicating so.
It will put an OTR icon on your toolbar where you can control the different settings like buddy authentication.
There will also be a private icon in the lower right corner where you can control different settings as well.
A couple of caveats we saw were it would pop up unverified messages when communicating with people who you don’t need it for. Also, uninstalling it was bit quirky but that doesn’t make it a deal breaker. Whether you’re at work and don’t want the boss spying on your private conversations, or are making plans for global domination, OTR is a great plugin to keep your IMs secure.
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xeverse opened this issue on 7 Feb 2015 · 12 comments
xeverse opened this issue on 7 Feb 2015 · 12 comments
?OTR?v2? ... has requested an Off-the-Record private conversation. However, you do not have a plugin to support that. See http://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ for more information.
But I do have the plugin installed and enabled.
local/libotr 4.1.0-1
can you check this with Psi on other side?
if it works then attach xml logs for both cases
ok. I will. Yep, some clients work fine. Others don't.
i can attach the xml console log but as far as i can see
there's nothing new. Just the same message with a bunch of xml tags.
What is it anyway? OTR proto v4 can't recognize v2 requests? and
is it the underlying system libotr or the psi-plus plugin implementation causing this?
2015-02-08 2:33 GMT+05:00 xeverse notifications@github.com:
ok. Yep, some clients work fine. Others don't.
i can attach the xml console log but as far as i can see
there's nothing new. Just the same message with a bunch of xml tags.
Is it the underlying system libotr or the psi-plus plugin implementation
causing this?
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#7 (comment).
What versions of Psi+ and OTR plugin are you using? In which distro?
I'm on Arch liGnux.
local/psi-plus-git 0.16.441-1
local/psi-plus-plugins-git 0.15.443-1
Linux 3.18.4-1-ARCH x86_64 GNU/Linux
Psi plus installed from AUR ABS latest git.
THis is getting really weird. Sometimes i get the message --
"?OTRv23? ... has requested an Off-the-Record private conversation. However, you do not have a plugin to support that."
and then "Unverified conversation started". Like just now when i was testing pidgin & psi-plus.
Although the other day no private conversation was initiated whatsoever.
I'm gonna test some more with other clients and will update.
local/psi-plus-plugins-git 0.15.443-1
This is not the version of OTR plugin (or any other Psi+ plugin). Please look at:
Psi+ Options --> Plugins --> Off-the-Record Messagin Plugin --> Version
Hmm, it is strange. I don't have any troubles with using OTR for communicating with Pidgin users since 0.9.7. But I am not sure if they are using the latest version of Pidgin. This issue needs more research.
I am also getting this error when chatting to pidgin users using latest pidgin. The error shows and then proceeds to work after OTR does a refresh.
Ri0n mentioned this issue on 21 Mar 2018
Did you guys figure this out I'm now having this issue. I realize this was a couple years ago if you even remember.
@gbougadis Make sure that Psi OTR plugin in built exactly with the same version of libotr with which in runs, because it has very strange runtime check of own version. In Debian we even use special patch for disabling this ugly behavior:
https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-privacy-team/libotr/blob/master/debian/patches/0001-Do-not-error-out-when-an-application-is-run-against-.patch
I have the problem, tested today on Windows x86 (Psi and Psi+), OTR enabled in two clients.
Generated key OK for two differrent JID in two different clients with one JID
The contact key has been verified in two client.
Request from Psi:
?OTRv23? *xxx2@xxx.xxx* has requested an Off-the-Record private conversation. However, you do not have a plugin to support that. See https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ for more information.
[XX:XX:XX] *** Attempting to start a private conversation
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