This is the portable OTR Messaging Library, as well as the toolkit to
help you forge messages.
Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations
over instant messaging by providing:
- Encryption: No one else can read your instant messages
- Authentication: You are assured the correspondent is who you think it is
- Deniability: The messages you send do not have digital signatures
that are checkable by a third party. Anyone can forge messages after
a conversation to make them look like they came from you. However,
during a conversation, your correspondent is assured the messages he
sees are authentic and unmodified
- Perfect forward secrecy: If you lose control of your private keys, no
previous conversation is compromised.
Alexis Hildebrandt