Change how active OTR is flagged in chats?

[petterreinholdtsen]

Hi.

If I got it right, this plugin indicate that OTR is used by adding stars (*) around the username of the other party in the chat window. While the python OTR plugin available from https://github.com/SpiralP/HexChat-otr indicate active OTR by adding [OTR] in front of the username. I find the [OTR] flag easier to understand than the nick flag. Would it be interesting to change the way active OTR is flagged in this plugin?

[zeriam]

Whether or not the suggestion is adopted, I feel that sent/outgoing messages should also be flagged as secure similar to incoming/received messages. It isn't always completely clear whether sent/outgoing messages are secure/encrypted, such as after key generation begins, but before it finishes. Currently, one must pay close attention to the "gone secure" and other similar messages.

[petterreinholdtsen]

Good point. It is a variant of my request in issue #16, where I ask for
a way to get the status of the current chat session.

[dramb-lys]

In addition to showing whether a chat is encrypted (OTR active) it's also necessary to show whether the other party is verified with a trusted key. A secure man-in-the-middled chat is not where we want to be.

See https://github.com/cryptodotis/irssi-otr, where possible states are:

Possible states are:

Plaintext
Finished
OTR
OTR (unverified)