[guardian-dev] Chatsecure updates?

[Chris Ballinger]

We are working on adding OTRDATA support in ChatSecure-iOS, as well as
considering implementing Cryptocat's file transfer spec


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Abel Luck <abel at guardianproject.info>wrote:

> 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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