HOWTO : OTR with Hexchat on Kali Linux 1.0.9a

What is OTR?



Please refer to Off-the-Record Messaging



Step 1 :



We need backports repos :



echo "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list



Step 2 :



apt-get update

apt-get install libotr5-bin libotr5 libotr5-dev libgcrypt11-dev gnome-common




Step 3 :



git clone https://github.com/TingPing/hexchat-otr.git



Step 4 :



cd hexchat-otr

./autogen.sh

make -s

make install




Usage :



To to nick "samiux" with otr :

/query samiux

/otr start




If you trust the connection :

/otr trust



You may consider to auth with password :

/otr auth [password]



If everything is okay, you will see all message from samiux is encrypted. You can confirmed with his nick, it will be *samiux* on the screen.



When chatting is finished :

/otr finish



Remarks :



Make sure you do not keep the log.



However, this program is not perfect. If you encounter any problem that cannot solve, you can uninstall it by :



sudo make uninstall



That's all! See you.