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| author | Wilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@gaast.net> | 2010-10-09 11:41:19 -0700 |
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| committer | Wilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@gaast.net> | 2010-10-09 11:41:19 -0700 |
| commit | 619770237590e4a760346f2e12681d7e2220dda4 (patch) | |
| tree | 8d0d391407280ab74e1fc876d6f272110b474897 /doc/README | |
| parent | 23b29c67968f3dd39e7d6970acc5669556f4c8b9 (diff) | |
| parent | 27b407fde1844a0e03f1a9d92d2a1c4a40435f9b (diff) | |
Merging OTR branch. It's more or less a plugin if you enable it, and
otherwise a no-op. DO NOT INSTALL THIS ON PUBLIC SERVERS.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/README | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ DEPENDENCIES BitlBee's only real dependency is GLib. This is available on virtually every platform. Any recent version of GLib (2.4 or higher) will work. +Off-the-Record encryption support can be included if libotr is available on +your machine. Pass --otr=1 to configure to build it into BitlBee, or +--otr=plugin to build it as a separate loadable plugin (mostly meant for +distro packages). + These days, many IM protocols use SSL/TLS connections (for authentication or for the whole session). BitlBee can use several SSL libraries for this: GnuTLS, NSS (which comes with Mozilla) and OpenSSL. OpenSSL is not GPL- @@ -144,8 +149,8 @@ More documentation on the Wiki: http://wiki.bitlbee.org/ -A NOTE ON ENCRYPTION -==================== +A NOTE ON PASSWORD ENCRYPTION +============================= There used to be a note here about the simple obfuscation method used to make the passwords in the configuration files unreadable. However, BitlBee |