[gentoo-user] Encryption in Kopete

[gentoo-user] Encryption in Kopete

[Mick]

Hi All,

I am not sure what I am doing wrong.  I go to configure Plugins in
Kopete and under the Kryptography plugin the entry "Your private PGP
key" is greyed out.  Clicking on the select buttons brings up a lovely
empty window titled "Private Key List - Kopete:  Choose secret key".
The list is unfortunately empty.  Shouldn't I find my OpenGPG keys in
there?

Is there a similar function in Gaim, or does it only do vanilla
messaging (unencrypted)?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Encryption in Kopete

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Sunday 25 June 2006 21:02, Mick wrote:
> Is there a similar function in Gaim, or does it only do vanilla
> messaging (unencrypted)?

I have no experience with encryption in instant messengers so can't help with 
that. But there is a plugin:

# eix gaim-encryption
* x11-plugins/gaim-encryption
     Available versions:  2.32-r1 2.34 2.35 2.36 2.37 2.38 [M]3.0[...]
     Installed:           none
     Homepage:            http://gaim-encryption.sourceforge.net/
     Description:         GAIM Encryption PlugIn

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Re: [gentoo-user] Encryption in Kopete

[Daniel Waeber]

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Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Sunday 25 June 2006 21:02, Mick wrote:
>> Is there a similar function in Gaim, or does it only do vanilla
>> messaging (unencrypted)?
> 
> I have no experience with encryption in instant messengers so can't help with 
> that. But there is a plugin:
> 
> # eix gaim-encryption
> * x11-plugins/gaim-encryption
>      Available versions:  2.32-r1 2.34 2.35 2.36 2.37 2.38 [M]3.0[...]
>      Installed:           none
>      Homepage:            http://gaim-encryption.sourceforge.net/
>      Description:         GAIM Encryption PlugIn
> 
The gaim-encryption protocol does not use any common encryption like
gpg, so if you want to use it both sides have to use gaim-encryption.

At the moment I use centericqs gpg-feature, but it is only implemented
for the jabber protocol, so you have to switch to jabber.

I have only tried these so I don't know about the rest of the IM-clients.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Encryption in Kopete

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 00:24 +0200, Bo ??rsted Andresen wrote:
> On Sunday 25 June 2006 21:02, Mick wrote:
> > Is there a similar function in Gaim, or does it only do vanilla
> > messaging (unencrypted)?
> 
> I have no experience with encryption in instant messengers so can't help with 
> that. But there is a plugin:
> 
> # eix gaim-encryption
> * x11-plugins/gaim-encryption

I use this. It's Great.
There is also this. I've never tested it, but it's "supposed" to be
better(?) than the former.

* x11-plugins/gaim-otr 
     Available versions:  ~1.0.3 ~2.0.0 ~2.0.1 ~2.0.2 ~3.0.0 ~3.0.0-r1
     Installed:           none
     Homepage:            http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
     Description:         (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private
conversations over instant messaging


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Re: [gentoo-user] Encryption in Kopete

[Mick]

On 28/06/06, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 00:24 +0200, Bo ??rsted Andresen wrote:
> > On Sunday 25 June 2006 21:02, Mick wrote:
> > > Is there a similar function in Gaim, or does it only do vanilla
> > > messaging (unencrypted)?
> >
> > I have no experience with encryption in instant messengers so can't help with
> > that. But there is a plugin:
> >
> > # eix gaim-encryption
> > * x11-plugins/gaim-encryption
>
> I use this. It's Great.
> There is also this. I've never tested it, but it's "supposed" to be
> better(?) than the former.
>
> * x11-plugins/gaim-otr
>      Available versions:  ~1.0.3 ~2.0.0 ~2.0.1 ~2.0.2 ~3.0.0 ~3.0.0-r1
>      Installed:           none
>      Homepage:            http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
>      Description:         (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private
> conversations over instant messaging

Thanks!  Very interesting, especially the second package.  The only
drawback is that the receiver should also be using Gaim with the same
plugin - which excludes most of my M$Windoze friends.  :-(
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