Comment 71 for bug 296867

So, this is triaged and wishlisted, is anyone interested in implementing it? I am.

I agree with the developers' general concerns regarding OTR, it doesn't work well, but it works with users of common IM clients on all operating systems. I have a lot of experience with its' funkiness

The most important use of OTR for serious IT? Giving users secure passwords, or asking them for a new password for a service which must be reset by an admin in the shell.

Second most important? Talking about competetive business ideas that might compete with companies who own and operate huge IM networks. It shouldn't be possible to operate a dedicated, physically secure server to have a secure conversation.

The deniability aspect is not the most important thing to me, I'm not sure a mainstream product needs to AIM FOR giving users deniability, as this implies intentional protection of wrongdoing, but it is essential to be able to secure at least portions of a conversation, selectively, and in fact OTR's PGP-based system is effective at removing deniability when that is intended, so not just encryption, but signature identity.

Anyway, I'm interested in helping to implement this feature if noone currently is. Pidgin is, in fact, a flaky pile of crud that evolved from gaim which evolved from who knows what, paper cups and string. The biggest problem I have with Pidgin is that it sometimes just stops accepting pastes, so that's been enough for me to decide that OTR is no longer my favorite feature, though still an important one.

That Empathy was flung onto Ubuntu users with reduced functionality and arbitrary opposition to reproducing commonly used functionality, however, is inescapably ironic to me. ;)