BitlBee and OTR … then add some TOR!

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:00:12 +0000

With the release of 3.0.1 of BitlBee you can now chat from your favorite IRC client with the peace of mind that your protected. Since the OTR portion is still very new I wanted to put together a quick howto. I am going to assume you are running Debian Lenny (sid has 3.0.1 in the packages already) and that you really are a security nut:

Download source from http://get.bitlbee.org/src/bitlbee-3.0.1.tar.gz
sudo apt-get install libotr2-dev libotr2-bin
./configure –prefix=/usr –otr=1
make
make install
make install-etc

Done! Now once you start bitlbee (/etc/init.d/bitlbee start) for the first time it will generate your OTR keys. I am going to assume that you are going to use the Question and Answer verification for OTR keys. With our other secure buddy we do the following:

Jabber Mix Client 1.3 Beta

Mon, 07 May 2007 05:11:00 +0000

I am wanting to OTA because BlackBerry refuses to open up to Linux Machines. If you need to install JMC 1.3 to your blackberry/nokia OTA then use the links below:

Jad File

Jar File

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BitlBee and OTR … then add some TOR!

Jabber Mix Client 1.3 Beta