Off-the-Record Messaging: Useful Security and Privacy for IM

May 23, 2007 lecture by Ian Goldberg for the Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium (EE 380). In this talk, Ian discusses “Off-the-Record Messaging” (OTR), a widely used software tool for secure and private instant messaging; he outlines the properties of Useful Security and Privacy Technologies that motivated OTR’s design, compares it to other IM security mechanisms, and talks about its ongoing development directions.

EE 380 | Computer Systems Colloquium:

http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/

Stanford Computer Systems Laboratory:

http://csl.stanford.edu/

Stanford Center for Professional Development:

http://scpd.stanford.edu/

Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanforduniversity/

Duration : 1:20:42

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