[liberationtech] New messenger to replace Adium and Pidgin

[malte at wk3.org]

Quoting Axel Simon (2015-10-30 13:18:25)
> In practice, with OTR, as soon as you have more than one client
> connected to your account, things go down the drain. I know OTRv4 is
> supposed to solve that, in practice, it just does not work (I've tried
> with several people, in several settings, you always end up with a
> confusing situation and lost and/or repeated messages).
> 
> One encryption solution that claims to solve several of OTR's issues is
> OMEMO. I have no idea how serious the code is, and I doubt it's been
> audited at this point, but it was created by the same people who make
> Conversations, which is at this point the most advanced XMPP client on
> Android in my opinion. (http://conversations.im/omemo/)
> 
> Any chances of seeing Tor Messenger incorporate OMEMO?

Yes: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17457