Gajim-otr
OTR (off-the-record) encryption is strong end-to-end encryption protocol for instant messaging (read more). OTR hasn't any XMPP XEP, because OTR is of cross-protocol nature.
And Gajim is a powerful XMPP-client without OTR support out-of-the-box.
Gajim >= 0.15 (or gajim-hg)
Since version 0.15, Gajim has powerful plugin system. The gotr plugin is used to provide OTR encryption, and it depends on python-potr, the modern OTR protocol implementation written on python by Kjell Bradden.
Installation
To install the plugin follow these simple steps:
- Install aur:pure-python-otr-git;
- Install/update the gajim plugins from hg.
- To go through next steps, you need mercurial (a popular DVCS) installed:
$ sudo pacman -S mercurial
- Go to gajim plugins directory:
$ mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gajim/plugins/; cd ~/.local/share/gajim/plugins/
- (at first time) Download all plugins:
$ hg clone http://hg.gajim.org/gajim-plugins/ .
- (at next times) Update plugins to newer versions:
$ hg pull; hg up; rm -f */*.pyo
- To go through next steps, you need mercurial (a popular DVCS) installed:
- [Re]Start gajim;
Configuration
At first time, you also need to activate OTR plugin:
- Go to menu Edit => Modules;
- Activate the "Off-the-record encryption" plugin;
- Click on plugin settings button;
- Generate your OTR key using "Generate key";
- Take a look on other settings;
- Close dialogs to save the changes.
Troubleshooting
Q: "Off-the-record encryption" is not shown in Modules.
A: Be sure, that ~/.local/share/gajim/plugins/gotr/ is not empty and python-potr installed on latest version.
Q: There are no Modules item in gajim menu.
A: Go to Help => About. The gajim version should be 0.15 or something like 0.14.0.1-b9cb32f5badd, where "b9cb32f5badd" is any commit id, if gajim-hg is used. If not, update gajim as said earlier.