Your right, OTR has some advantages over the GPG plugin, but it has also a major disadvantage. You cannot send encrypted offline messages. At least not with the OTR plugin of kopete 0.12. Therefore I still prefer the normal crypto plugin. Regards, Stefan Dexter Filmore wrote: > Just since the topic came up: I use the OTR plugin and found that to be rather > good, it's cross platform, available for kopete, pidgin, trillian pro and > others.