![]() Perfect forward secrecy: if the private keys are lost, no previous conversations can be compromised.Authentication: you are sure that the other person in the conversation is who you think it is.Deniability: the messages themselves don’t have digital signatures that a 3rd-party could verify, while you and the other participant in a conversation can be assured that what you see is unmodified and authentic.Encryption: nobody other than you and the other party in the conversation can read your messages.OTR, or Off-the-Record Messaging (technical link) is privacy software that provides: Off-The-Record Messaging vs Bogus Google “Off the Record” The conversations can also be produced in response to a governmental coercive request. Google may analyze the data for targeted advertising. I won’t bother with skype anymore but I will attempt to write an Adium plugin for the nimbuzz SVZ gw that sets the real nicks and also gets their pics.Although the users’ conversations aren’t preserved for posterity, there is every chance that Google vectorizes and stores the conversations as they flow through their systems. Along the way I also found a very interesting presentation about dissecting skype and its proto here. It even gets status msgs and profile pix from your buddies which the nimbuzz gw doesn’t. The newer version however, does succeed in silencing skype in the bg so that it won’t notify you anymore, so it is very useful. That was very annoying, so I stopped using it. ![]() But if you get a msg from a buddy skype still opens a chat window and notifies you, alongside Adium. You have to have skype running in the background to use their API and access their p2p net. Still that was not enough for me, so I looked again the Pidgin skype pluging that I had found a while ago and not found interesting, because it does not silence skype. Not even the web or Windows nimbuzz client can use the skype gw. The skype gw also works but only gives you your buddies presence notifications when you send a special msg that pretends to be the iPhone client. Using the SVZ GW works like it should, only drawback is that Adium does not understand the msg to rename the contact. So by using a Jabber client and connecting to the nimbuzz server (on ) with your account you can use their GW. This makes sense since they only have implement the XMPP proto in their mobile client instead of all of them, and then use the GW for all accounts. OpenFire is free and comes with plugins for all major IMs except skype and SVZ which they must have added. It also turns out that Nimbuzz works by running an OpenFire gateway from Jabber/ XMPP to all the other IMs on their server. Turns out that they have a deal with SVZ which gives them access to their API. So naturally, I got curious how they do it and started digging. Turns out they do and lots of people are requesting some kind of plugin for it, but despite talk about them opening up their API all over the net, they have not done it yet. It allows connection to the chat systems of MySpace and Facebook and even StudiVZ – the german FB copycat that is being sued for stealing from FB – and I didn’t even know they had a chat system. Some time ago I installed Nimbuzz on my iPhone and found it very cool.
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