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by sk5t 2788 days ago
The choice isn't between using OTR vs. using PGP. It's between using unaudited (but perhaps convenient) commercial software vs. using possibly-audited, offline-friendly (probably inconvenient) PGP to exchange extremely-high-sensitivity messages. The apocryphal Snowden account even appears to suggest PGP for the lower-sensitivity message.