[tor-dev] Attentive Otter: Analysis of Instantbird/Thunderbird

[Griffin Boyce]

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  So the lack of OTR support in Instantbird is nearly a dealbreaker for
me, as it makes it a bit more likely than a rogue exit could intercept a
user's communications. Though this depends in part on SSL/TLS support
and whether a user *actually enables* it in their settings.

  Would the plan be to create and test a reliable OTR patch for Instantbird?

  Pidgin's big issue before was DNS leaks. How is this addressed by
Instantbird? (okay, there are a few big issues with Pidgin but...)

  I like Instantbird's UI, but we should come up with a plan to set
proper defaults.

~Griffin


Mike Perry & Sukhbir Singh wrote:
>   - No OTR support yet
>     + OTR support tickets:
>       https://bugzilla.instantbird.org/show_bug.cgi?id=877
>       https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779052
>     + For a stopgap/prototype: We can use the js-ctypes wrapper of libotr
>       along with the message observer API
>       + Example observer API use w/ rot13:
>         http://hg.instantbird.org/addons/file/tip/rot13
>       + JS-Ctypes wrapper for native libotr:
>        
http://gitorious.org/fireotr/fireotr/blobs/master/chrome/content/otr_wrapper.js
>         + The ctypes wrapper can be converted to an XPCOM wrapper later.
>     + According to sshagarwal #maildev on irc.mozilla.org, Mozilla is
>       also working towards implementing all of the primitives needed
for OTR (and OTR
>       itself) in NSS. These are listed in this comment:
>       https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779052#c17
>       + We could also rely on the ctypes wrapper until native support is
>         available, and possibly skip an XPCOM libotr wrapper entirely.


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