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Why is it now insecure? A quick Google hasn't found me anything.

• e12e 3y ago
  Wondering about this, too?
• pabs3 3y ago
  The crypto is very very outdated. There is OTRv4 being worked on to update it, but that hasn't been finished in many years. Edit: Someone else's blog post about the crypto: https://dustri.org/b/time-to-sunset-otr.html https://dustri.org/b/time-to-sunset-otr.html OTRv4: https://github.com/otrv4/otrv4/ https://github.com/otrv4/otrv4/
  • upofadown 3y ago
    Assuming the Bitcoin mining network as a reference to the state of the art: It would cost around a million US $ just for the cost of the electricity (8 cents per kWh) to impersonate you (1024 bit DSA). That could also lead to a MITM attack. To attack the encryption directly would take 65 billion $ in electricity alone. So fairly unlikely. So you would have to ask yourself what your messages are worth should you use OTR...