[guardian-dev] Sending files using ChatSecure

Angel Vicente angelv64 at wanadoo.es
Tue Jul 1 16:47:47 EDT 2014


El Thu, 26 Jun 2014 02:11:06 -0004
Nathan of Guardian <nathan at guardianproject.info> escribió:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Angel Vicente <angelv64 at wanadoo.es> 
> wrote:
> > I'm not sure if is a problem with ChatSecure:
> > I have a phone LG with ChatSecure and a Google account, and other
> > Huawei with ChatSecure and a Jitsi account (I've mentioned the
> > brands as data).
> > 
> > Is possible encrypted chat between both without problems, but
> > sending files is possible only from LG/Google, from other phone it
> > seems there is a problem: it seem start to send but after a while
> > it seemes stopped, the file never arrives to destination.
> 
> Have you tried smaller files? Also, are you leaving the chat windows 
> open, or switching out of the app? I would try leaving it alone and
> see what happens.

I couldn't test with two phones, I'm testing using a phone Huawei and
chatsecure with jitsi account and Pidgin debian testing and other jitsi
account, and it's not possible to send any file in any direction

> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > I can't test from other phones/accounts because I have not more.
> > Is there any problems with these combinations phones and accounts?
> 
> Not in theory, but we are still understanding in practice what it
> means to move this much binary data through the OTR encrypted
> channels. This is especially true for federated communications
> between two different XMPP services.
> 
> Best,
>  Nathan



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