[guardian-dev] Sending files using ChatSecure

[Nathan of Guardian]

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 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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