[guardian-dev] Chatsecure updates?

[Abel Luck]

On Friday 28 March 2014 15:53:06 Matej Kovacic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > We also have another new Dev on the project (Dbro) who is working on
> > unifiying our xmpp and OTR libraries with Jitsi, Yaxim and other
> > java-based apps.
> 
> Great to hear that. However, I have noticed one thing. I tried to send a
> voice message to a friend who is using Kopete - and he received nothing.
> 
> Is ChatSecure using some non-standard protocol for file exchange?
> 

Yes it is actually, though we would like our implementation to become a 
standard. [1]

Default XMPP file transfer isn't end-to-end secure as it happens outside the 
OTR layer. 

Our new file transfer implementation is an extension to OTR that allows for file 
transfer inside the OTR layer.

This means the file transfer is secured in the same way as the OTR messages. 
Unfortunately no other apps have implemented it yet.

~abel

[1]: 
https://dev.guardianproject.info/projects/gibberbot/wiki/OTRDATA_Specifications
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