From 3ffc53e13e7d153312ef1daa4c798ed0eed977eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sven Moritz Hallberg Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:25:41 +0100 Subject: add a blurb about OTR to the README --- doc/README | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/README') diff --git a/doc/README b/doc/README index bb6596ba..10f21501 100644 --- a/doc/README +++ b/doc/README @@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ 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 will be included by default if the +configure script finds libotr in one of the usual places. You can pass +--otr=1 or --otr=0 to force it on or off, respectively. + These days, MSN Messenger clients have to connect to the MS Passport servers through HTTPS. BitlBee can use several SSL libraries for this: GnuTLS, NSS (which comes with Mozilla) and OpenSSL. OpenSSL is not GPL-compatible in some @@ -151,8 +155,8 @@ Our version control system is Bazaar-NG. Our repository is at: http://code.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 -- cgit v1.2.3