Empathy should support OTR encryption
Submitted by Fionn Behrens
Link to original bug (#545347)
Description
The only reason that keeps me from switching from pidgin to empathy is that at my company OTR is mandatory for IM. It is the only IM encryption model so far that works across many different platforms and protocols, so most people can stay with their favourite IM client and still communicate safely. Most people, but empathy users are not in the club.
Please note that I filed this request for the telepathy framework as well (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16891). But since OTR goes on top of the IM layer it could as well be implemented in the application layer. It is up to you to decide if you want to wait for them (potentially forever) to implement this quasi-standard of IM encryption.
As mentioned, there is an OTR plugin for pidgin for reference and an OTR library (libotr, written in C).
Version: 2.28.x