On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 12:37 -0230, Damian Gerow wrote:
Ted Smith wrote:
Pidgin/OTR
OTR is good, but libpurple is a "rat's nest of zero days" according to many (notably Jacob Applebaum), so I think I'd avoid it. Not sure what's better though. Maybe irssi+otr?
libpurple may be a "rat's nest of zero days", but irssi+otr is a nightmare to get working properly. I've given up on it, and I've started using mcabber+otr instead.
bitlbee+otr might be a better choice, and might provide the same network access as libpurple, with irssi as the interface. However, I can't comment as to the usability of such a configuration.
Last I looked, Bitlbee used an in-tree fork of an ancient version of libpurple for its protocol support. That may have changed since. /Nick