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Re: Encryption plugins for gaim

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Fields)
Sun Mar 20 11:52:04 2005

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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:02:17 -0500
From: Adam Fields <cryptography23094893@aquick.org>
To: Ian Goldberg <ian@cypherpunks.ca>
Cc: cryptography23094893@aquick.org, stpeter@jabber.org,
	iang@systemics.com, cryptography@metzdowd.com, otr@cypherpunks.ca
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:47:35PM -0500, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> > this is actually a very good solution for
> > me. The only thing I don't like about it is that it stores the private
> > key on your machine. I understand why that is, but it also means that
> > if you switch machines with the same login (home/work), you have to
> > reverify the fingerprint out of band (assuming you care enough to do
> > that in the first place).
> 
> You can also just copy your otr.private_key file around.  See, for
> example, http://chris.milbert.com/AIM_Encryption/

It would be helpful if you could specify the location of the private
key file, so then it could be on a thumb drive or something similar.

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