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OTRv4
OTRv4-over-XMPP
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## Introduction
The Off-the-Record messaging protocol (OTR) was originally introduced in the
2004 paper
[
Off-the-Record Communication, or, Why Not To Use PGP
](
https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/otr-wpes.pdf
)
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2004 paper
'
Off-the-Record Communication, or, Why Not To Use PGP
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#references
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and has since become an standard for performing end-to-end encryption. OTR
provides confidentiality, deniability, authentication, forward secrecy and
post-compromise security.
The OTR protocol itself (in its latest version) is currently described by the
document: Off-the-Record Messaging Protocol version 4 [2] and will not be
described here. Instead, this document aims to describe OTR's usage in its
current version (version 4) and best practices of using it within XMPP.
document: Off-the-Record Messaging Protocol version 4
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\[2\]
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#references
)
and
will not be described in detail over here. Instead, this document aims to
describe OTR's usage in its current version (version 4) and best practices of
using it within XMPP.
## Overview
Though this document will not focus on the OTR protocol itself, a brief overview
is warranted to better understand the protocols strengths and weaknesses.
OTR provides several cryptographic properties depending of what kind of
conversation in established.
confidentiality, deniability, authentication, forward secrecy and
post-compromise security.
OTR (in its version 4) uses several cryptographic algorithms, such as SHAKE-256
and ChaCha20. An OTR session can be held only between two parties, meaning that
OTR is incompatible with Multi-User Chat (XEP-0045) [3] and Mediated Information
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## References
1.
Borisov, N., Goldberg, I. and Brewer, E. (20004).
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Off-the-Record Communication,
or, Why Not To Use PGP
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, WPES’04. Available at:
https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/otr-wpes.pdf
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