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Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private
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conversations over instant messaging by providing:
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* Encryption
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No one else can read your instant messages.
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* Authentication
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You are assured the correspondent is who you think it is.
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* Deniability
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The messages you send do not have digital signatures that
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are checkable by a third party. Anyone can forge messages
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after a conversation to make them look like they came from
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you. However, during a conversation, your correspondent is
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assured the messages he sees are authentic and unmodified.
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* Perfect forward secrecy
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If you lose control of your private keys, no previous
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conversation is compromised.
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