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@@ -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 |