[Erc-discuss] Re: Erc & Gnupg?

[Memnon Anon]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> I would advise looking at “Off-the-Record” (OTM) and especially the
> paper that explains why they think OpenPGP isn’t well suited for instant
> messaging:

Yes, I found OTR already and now read the PDF (otr-codecon.pdf).

However, I already have a hard time to convince my contacts to use any
encryption software :(, so I'd prefer just one implementation.
I also encourage them to use a *strong* mantra, so even if a secret key
is compromised and consequently discarded for future use, I still
think gpg offers pretty good privacy. Deniability is not a prime goal of
mine, in fact I am not sure it is a goal at all.

And: gpg has a large userbase, lots of people depend on it so I think 
     (hope) it is well maintained. (The whole debian infrastructure
     depends on gpg.) 

> Adding OTM support into ERC proper would be better since it would make
> it usable on IRC as well.  Any takers?  :-)

That was my point: I think (!) it would be much easier to implement gpg,
because it is already well integrated into emacs with easypg.