[drdaeman]

> IRC with OTR

I'm terribly sorry for off-topic, but it really interests me. I've never seen OTR on IRC or XMPP except for private (one-to-one) conversations. Could you go into some details, please?

As far as I know, OTR only works with two parties talking in private. Is there a mature, cryptographer-vetted multiparty OTR protocol with ready-to-use desktop software implementations out there?

The properties that interest me are secure authentication, acceptable forward secrecy and deniable encryption. I.e. I want to be sure I'm chatting with my friends, and if they don't keep logs what was said would stay only between us and the only thing external observer could say is that we had exchanged some information.