Off-the-Record Messaging VS pChat

Off-the-Record Messaging mentions (10)

• What’s does everyone use for messaging?

  Get Pidgin, download the (OTR, Off the Record)[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/] extension so you will have no data on your device stored. Source: 10 months ago

• My way is definitely not overthinked but there should be any more easiest/secure ways?

  To understand more about it read here: https://otr.cypherpunks.ca. Source: over 1 year ago

• Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client

  A: Google & Facebook shut down their XMPP gateways to force you into their apps. All the sudden you use Pidgin to communicate with people on google & facebook. At least that was my experience. I used to use Pidgin with OTR[0] for e2e encrypted chat over google & facebook. It was pretty fantastic, messages were inaccessible to facebook and google even with a court order so I didn't need to trust them. Also used... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• EU law threatening 'commercially painful changes' for tech out tonight

  Why so pesimisstic. In a sane world (and probably in the world where they want to say "just use WhatsApp, we're better!") they'll say "This user is using an unencrypted app. [Paragraph about how all your nudes and contents of bank account will be stolen]. Are you sure you want to send them a message?". In a better world, something like https://otr.cypherpunks.ca could be implemented, where the user has control of... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• IRCv3 spec round-up 2021

  OTR is the de-facto standard for encryption on IRC. It's also quite old, so it predates IRCv3. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

pChat mentions (0)