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The crypto is very very outdated.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 abou
by 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The crypto is very very outdated.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 agoAssuming 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...