Commit 8232cdaf authored by JC Brand's avatar JC Brand

Bugfix. Updates #111

When using OTR with prebind, the user password isn't defined.
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When not using prebind, the user password is used to encrypt the private key
for the OTR session before it's saved in session storage.

When using prebind, we ideally want to use the same OTR private key across page
loads, so that we don't have to spend the time generating a new one together
with AKE on every page load. To do this, we need to store it somewhere, like
the browser's session storage.

However, I have yet to find a secure way to store the OTR private key that does
not expose it to maliciously injected javascript.

For now, I've updated the code to generate a new private key and do the AKE
with every page reload.

I'm considering adding code to store the private key in Session Storage and
letting the user explicitly enable this (while making them aware of the risks
involved).
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