On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 06:26:28PM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote:

Am I on the right track? If so does anyone know of a helpful guide to get started with OpenSSL on the command line besides the man pages?

last time i checked openssl does no authenticated encryption on the command line. -- otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt