Monday, April 21. 2008
gajim with otr encryption
In the instant messaging world, encryption is a bit of a problem. There is no single standard that all clients share, mostly two methods of encryption are out there: pgp over jabber (as defined in the xmpp standard) and otr.Most clients only support either otr (pidgin, adium) or pgp (gajim, psi), for a long time I was looking for a solution where both methods work. psi has otr-patches, but they didn't work when I tried them. kopete also has an otr-plugin, but I've not tested that yet.
Today I found that there is an otr-branch of gajim, which is my everyday client, so this would be great. As you can see on the picture, it seems to work on a connection with an ICQ user using pidgin.
I've created some ebuilds in my overlay (the code is stored in bazaar, I've copied the bzr eclass from the desktop effects overlay):
svn co https://svn.hboeck.de/overlay
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Gajim-trunk already supports Encrypted Sessions which is the standardized way to go.
Is this a reason not to implement OTR as an additional encryption protocol ?
OTR is necessary to communicate with users on other networks over transports.
It can also be used to communicate with users of other clients which don't support esessions.
There probably won't be one encryption protocol which will be implemented by all clients in the near future. Meanwhile, the more encryption protocols gajim supports the more of its users will be able to communicate securely.
OTR is necessary to communicate with users on other networks over transports.
It can also be used to communicate with users of other clients which don't support esessions.
There probably won't be one encryption protocol which will be implemented by all clients in the near future. Meanwhile, the more encryption protocols gajim supports the more of its users will be able to communicate securely.
kopete supports gpg encryption out of the box, and there is an otr plugin (net-im/kopete-otr) in the tree
Hi!
thanks for using my software. I'm currently preparing a official release of pyotr (which are the python bindings for the OTR library, used in gajim/otr). I'll leave a note here when they're out, you can also subscribe to the RSS feed of the pyotr project.
When the gajim people implemented their plugin interface I'll provide a more clean solution for hijacking their code (and I'll probably release it officially), I guess my current way is quite hackish. Suggestions are welcome, just hit me via mail or jabber :)
Thanks,
Kjell
thanks for using my software. I'm currently preparing a official release of pyotr (which are the python bindings for the OTR library, used in gajim/otr). I'll leave a note here when they're out, you can also subscribe to the RSS feed of the pyotr project.
When the gajim people implemented their plugin interface I'll provide a more clean solution for hijacking their code (and I'll probably release it officially), I guess my current way is quite hackish. Suggestions are welcome, just hit me via mail or jabber :)
Thanks,
Kjell
Hi again!
I released pyotr 0.1 on pyotr.pentabarf.de.
Note that the newest bzr revision (8042) for gajim/otr fixed an issue with ?OTR:[lot of garbage here] shown when talking to purple clients.
I released pyotr 0.1 on pyotr.pentabarf.de.
Note that the newest bzr revision (8042) for gajim/otr fixed an issue with ?OTR:[lot of garbage here] shown when talking to purple clients.
The SRC_URI changed, so that the 0.1 ebuild does not work.
It also seems that the OTR-Support is merged into gajim-trunk now.
http://trac.gajim.org/changeset/9602
Anyway. Thanks for the ebuild!
It also seems that the OTR-Support is merged into gajim-trunk now.
http://trac.gajim.org/changeset/9602
Anyway. Thanks for the ebuild!
otr support was removed from gajim-trunk:
http://trac.gajim.org/browser/trunk/src/common/gajim.py?rev=9771
http://trac.gajim.org/browser/trunk/src/common/gajim.py?rev=9771
I know, I've changed the ebuild back to use the bazaar-branch from kjell for now.
last time i tried kopete's pgp-support wasn't working with gajim (but i didn't debug it), kopete's otr worked with gajim-otr, though.
mcabber has otr and pgp.
+++ neingeist
mcabber has otr and pgp.
+++ neingeist
Hi. The ebuild from your overlay is not working anymore. The Bazaar-repo seems to be moved.
In Yours ebuild net-im/gajim-9999.ebuild You have
net-im/pyotr but right is net-im/python-otr
http://gajim-otr.pentabarf.de/example-pythonotr.html
Could You include in Yours Overlay this ebuild and improve it if is needed, it works for me.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300634
That this ebuid works, I must patch allways Yours ebuild for Gajim-9999 with
gajim_python-otr
#!/bin/bash
sed -i 's/net-im\/pyotr/net-im\/python-otr/' \
/var/paludis/repositories/hanno/net-im/gajim/gajim-9999.ebuild
Thanks in advance
net-im/pyotr but right is net-im/python-otr
http://gajim-otr.pentabarf.de/example-pythonotr.html
Could You include in Yours Overlay this ebuild and improve it if is needed, it works for me.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300634
That this ebuid works, I must patch allways Yours ebuild for Gajim-9999 with
gajim_python-otr
#!/bin/bash
sed -i 's/net-im\/pyotr/net-im\/python-otr/' \
/var/paludis/repositories/hanno/net-im/gajim/gajim-9999.ebuild
Thanks in advance
Gajim seems to have switched to depend on pygtk >=2.16 (the ebuild depends on >-2.12):
checking for PYGTK... configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.16.0 pygtk-2.0 >= 2.16.0) were not met:
Requested 'pygtk-2.0 >= 2.16.0' but version of PyGTK is 2.14.1
[...]
Thanks for your efforts.
checking for PYGTK... configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.16.0 pygtk-2.0 >= 2.16.0) were not met:
Requested 'pygtk-2.0 >= 2.16.0' but version of PyGTK is 2.14.1
[...]
Thanks for your efforts.
Hi. Me again :-)
update-eix complains for a while that the gajim-9999 uses NEED_PYTHON which will be removed in 1.5 months.
Could you add PYTHON_DEPEND instead to the ebuild? The correct value should be PYTHON_DEPEND="2:2.5". Thanks!
update-eix complains for a while that the gajim-9999 uses NEED_PYTHON which will be removed in 1.5 months.
Could you add PYTHON_DEPEND instead to the ebuild? The correct value should be PYTHON_DEPEND="2:2.5". Thanks!
There is python-related deprecation-warning for gajim-9999 again:
* Deprecation Warning: Usage of python_mod_optimize() in packages not supporting installation
* for multiple Python ABIs in EAPI =3 and call python_mod_optimize() with paths having appropriate syntax.
* The ebuild needs to be fixed. Please report a bug, if it has not been already reported.
* Compilation and optimization of Python modules for CPython 2.7 ...
Thanks.
* Deprecation Warning: Usage of python_mod_optimize() in packages not supporting installation
* for multiple Python ABIs in EAPI =3 and call python_mod_optimize() with paths having appropriate syntax.
* The ebuild needs to be fixed. Please report a bug, if it has not been already reported.
* Compilation and optimization of Python modules for CPython 2.7 ...
Thanks.
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Der Jabber-Client Gajim, welcher momentan ausschlißelich GPG-Unterstützung bietet, wird vorraussichtlich ab Version 0.12 OTR-Unterstützung anbieten. Ich freue mich dabei über die zahlreiche Nachfage zur verschlüsselten Kommunikation. Da dies jedoch noch e
Tracked: Jun 05, 00:28
Bereits vor einiger Zeit habe ich berichtet, dass es OTR erst ab dem release 0.12 in gajim geben wird. Ob 0.11.5 oder 0.12 als nächstes stabil released wird ist noch nicht bekannt, jedoch ist in der aktuellen Subversion-Entwicklerfassung gajims OTR unters
Tracked: Jun 05, 00:45