Comment 0 for bug 794453

Binary package hint: pidgin-otr

A friend I communicate with encrypted regularly uses multiple computers all running Ubuntu 11.04 with Pidgin and its OTR plugin on them and different OTR keys on these computers. I use bitlebee and bitlbee-otr onUbuntu 11.04 on a single computer when communicating with him.

When he sends me an encrypted message, then takes a break for several hours (not sure whether this is required to trigger this behaviour), then changes computers (not sure whether this is required to trigger this behaviour), then sends me another message, I receive this first message unencrypted. Bitlbee/bitlbee-otr/libotr report:

<root> otr: The following message received from [friends' XMPP account] was not encrypted: [[unencrypted message]]

This has happened several times now. Either the timing factor (session timeout) or the multiple OTR keys factor seem to trigger it - this is difficult to diagnose.

This may be a bug in pidgin-otr or in libotr itself. Possibly related: http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/ticket/759