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List:       otr-users
Subject:    Re: [OTR-users] Hi
From:       Ian Goldberg <ian () cypherpunks ! ca>
Date:       2009-12-28 22:21:30
Message-ID: 20091228222130.GL10350 () yoink ! cs ! uwaterloo ! ca
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On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 02:13:26PM -0800, Karmi Austria wrote:
> How can I read my saved previous conversations while OTR was enabled?
> How can I decode the encryption?

If you set your IM client to log the conversation, it should have logged
the plaintext of the messages, not the encrypted messages.  This of
course comes at a cost of secrecy, though less so deniability.

If you somehow only have the encrypted messages, then it's a fundamental
feature of OTR that there's no way to decrypt them after the fact.  The
encryption keys are very short-lived, and once they're erased, there's
no getting the message back.

   - Ian

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