Hexchat: Please add Off The Record (OTR) support

Created on 13 Feb 2016 · 8Comments · Source: hexchat/hexchat

It would be great if hexchat supported encrypted direct dialogs using Off The Record (OR) like many other IRC clients. There is a working plugin available from https://github.com/TingPing/hexchat-otr implementing this, but it is not actively maintained.

The best would be if OTR was included as part of the core functionallity of hexchat. Would you be willing to add this?

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petterreinholdtsen

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The problem is Windows. This requires building libotr4, which depends on libgcrypt, which depends on libgpg-error, all of which do not have VS projects upstream AFAIK.

Also since I barely maintain the project as-is I doubt that will change.

TingPing on 13 Feb 2016

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There is an alternative OTR plugin written in python available from https://github.com/SpiralP/HexChat-otr/ . It claim windows compatibility. Perhaps an easier solution?

petterreinholdtsen on 13 Feb 2016

Python scripts aren't relevant for official support as the scripting interfaces are optional.

TingPing on 13 Feb 2016

Aha. Perhaps such OTR plugin could be provided in some contrib/optional directory, to make OTR support more visible to all the developers looking at hexchat?

petterreinholdtsen on 13 Feb 2016

:+1: for native OTR support, irssi and Pidgin have it already and it's also wished for WeeChat (which currently has it only with script).