[guardian-dev] Fwd: Re: [OTR-users] Facebook blocking OTR

[devrandom]

SMP is just some specific OTR formatted messages.  That means that it
should work if OTR works.  If it doesn't, perhaps FB is inadvertently
corrupting some messages (e.g. if they are beyond a certain length).

On 17/04/12 17:33, Nathan of Guardian wrote:
>
> Interesting note below regarding the incompleteness of XMPP on Facebook.
> (aka no Socialist Millionaire's allowed!)
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     Re: [OTR-users] Facebook blocking OTR
> Date:     Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:19:25 -0600
> From:     Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im>
> To:     ix4svs at gmail.com
> CC:     otr-users at lists.cypherpunks.ca
>
>
>
> On 4/14/12 7:10 AM, ix4svs at gmail.com wrote:
> > Solved with the help of the good people of this list.
>
> > The problem is described here:
> > http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14781#comment:4 and it stems
> > from the fact some of us have completely turned off "apps &
> > websites".
>
> > If you visit
> > https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy&section=apps (while
> > logged in to FB) and see what's on the attached PNG, you need to
> > "turn on apps" and then OTR will work over FB chat.
>
> > One small caveat: ID verification over XMPP (with question/answer
> > or pre-shared secret) does not work at this time over FB. It seems
> > they have not implemented this feature, since the same
> > challenge/response protocol works fine over Google Chat.
>
> Facebook has not yet implemented processing of what in XMPP are called
> "IQ stanzas". This breaks a lot of things in XMPP, perhaps including
> OTR ID verification. (As I said, their implementation is incomplete.)
>
> Peter
>
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