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Mar 19th, 2006

Instant Messaging Encryption

I learned about a new feature that came with my IM client this weekend. It’s called Off-The-Record Encryption (OTR) and automagically comes with Adium X which operates only under OS X. The nice thing about using OTR is that it’s open source! I had never used OTR before and had no way of testing it so I convinced a couple of my friends to install the OTR plugin. There are two versions of the OTR plugin for GAIM so be sure you download the appropriate version. There is a limit of 892 on the number of characters you can send through the plugin. When not using the plugin there is a limit of 896 characters that you can send in a message. note: a space is considered a character.