Keeping your conversations secret with encryption
Profanity has another cool feature that sets it apart from the native chat, Google Chat, namely Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR). This encryption protocol allows you to send secret messages to your friends that even Google itself wouldn't be able to decipher.
OTR support and plugins are available for many instant messaging applications, so it is by no means a requirement for your friends to run Profanity on a Raspberry Pi. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging for a partial list of client software. The following are the steps to send secret messages:
- The first thing we're going to do is generate your private key for the chat service over which you'd like to send encrypted ...
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