Empathy

Bug #296867
Comment #180

Comment 180 for bug 296867

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Ronald Pottol (ronaldpottol) wrote on 2014-04-18: Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

#180

From comments when this first arose, the empathy developers were not
interested in something that was interoperable with OTR, but might,
someday, be interested in their own unique snowflake of an encryption
system.

I'm not a coder, but OTR is out there, works, and plays well with others.
They really ought to make it work in empathy, one way or another. Perhaps
there is a new bug that people might pay attention to, given the emphasis
on crypto these days?

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:23 PM, WhyteHorse <email address hidden> wrote:

> I also feel that Canonical should be funding this or providing
> developers since they made it the default for Ubuntu and exposed all
> their users to sending cleartext personal info over the internet.
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867
>
> Title:
> empathy needs to support OTR encryption
>
> Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface:
> Confirmed
> Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
> Invalid
> Status in Telepathy framework - library:
> Confirmed
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “libtelepathy” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “empathy” package in Fedora:
> Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: empathy
>
> Hello,
> I just tried empathy (the Intrepid version) and it looked very solid and
> stable. There were a few minor things that could be improved (e.g.
> automatically resizing the contact list), but that is not the topic here.
> The reason why I won't switch to empathy from pidgin is the missing OTR
> support (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ ). This is a really important
> feature because no one should read your messages.
> There were others with the same idea (links at the bottom).
> Would be so great if it could support that important encryption standard.
> Thanks for helping out!
>
> Links:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/253452/comments/2
>
> http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2008-September/001479.html
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16891
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/296867/+subscriptions
>

--
Plato seems wrong to me today.

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:23 PM, WhyteHorse <whytehorse@gmail.com> wrote:

> I also feel that Canonical should be funding this or providing
> developers since they made it the default for Ubuntu and exposed all
> their users to sending cleartext personal info over the internet.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867
>
> Title:
>   empathy needs to support OTR encryption
>
> Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface:
>   Confirmed
> Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
>   Invalid
> Status in Telepathy framework - library:
>   Confirmed
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
>   Triaged
> Status in “libtelepathy” package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
> Status in “empathy” package in Fedora:
>   Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
>   Binary package hint: empathy
>
>   Hello,
>   I just tried empathy (the Intrepid version) and it looked very solid and
> stable. There were a few minor things that could be improved (e.g.
> automatically resizing the contact list), but that is not the topic here.
>   The reason why I won't switch to empathy from pidgin is the missing OTR
> support (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ ). This is a really important
> feature because no one should read your messages.
>   There were others with the same idea (links at the bottom).
>   Would be so great if it could support that important encryption standard.
>   Thanks for helping out!
>
>   Links:
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/253452/comments/2
>
> http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2008-September/001479.html
>   http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16891
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/296867/+subscriptions
>

-- 
Plato seems wrong to me today.