otr_toolkit - otr_parse, otr_sesskeys, otr_mackey, otr_readforge, otr_modify, Record Messaging transcripts
otr_parse otr_sesskeys our_privkey their_pubkey otr_mackey aes_enc_key otr_readforge aes_enc_key [newmsg] otr_modify mackey old_text new_text offset otr_remac mackey sender_instance receiver_instance flags snd_keyid rcv_keyid pubkey counter encdata revealed_mackeys
OTR_PARSE(1) General Commands Manual OTR_PARSE(1)
NAME
otr_parse, otr_sesskeys, otr_mackey, otr_readforge, otr_modify,
otr_remac - Process Off-the-Record Messaging transcripts
SYNOPSIS
otr_parse
otr_sesskeys our_privkey their_pubkey
otr_mackey aes_enc_key
otr_readforge aes_enc_key [newmsg]
otr_modify mackey old_text new_text offset
otr_remac mackey sender_instance receiver_instance flags snd_keyid
rcv_keyid pubkey counter encdata revealed_mackeys
DESCRIPTION
Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations
over IM by providing:
- Encryption
- No one else can read your instant messages.
- Authentication
- You are assured the correspondent is who you think it is.
- Deniability
- The messages you send do not have digital signatures that are
checkable by a third party. Anyone can forge messages after a
conversation to make them look like they came from you. However,
during a conversation, your correspondent is assured the messages
he sees are authentic and unmodified.
- Perfect forward secrecy
- If you lose control of your private keys, no previous conversation
is compromised.
The OTR Toolkit is useful for analyzing and/or forging OTR messages.
Why do we offer this? Primarily, to make absolutely sure that tran-
scripts of OTR conversations are really easy to forge after the fact.
[Note that during an OTR conversation, messages can't be forged without
real-time access to the secret keys on the participants' computers, and
in that case, all security has already been lost.] Easily-forgeable
transcripts help us provide the "Deniability" property: if someone
claims you said something over OTR, they'll have no proof, as anyone at
all can modify a transcript to make it say whatever they like, and
still have all the verification come out correctly.
Here are the six programs in the toolkit:
- otr_parse
- Parse OTR messages given on stdin, showing the values of all the
fields in OTR protocol messages.
- otr_sesskeys our_privkey their_pubkey
- Shows our public key, the session id, two AES and two MAC keys
derived from the given Diffie-Hellman keys (one private, one pub-
lic).
- otr_mackey aes_enc_key
- Shows the MAC key derived from the given AES key.
- otr_readforge aes_enc_key [newmsg]
- Decrypts an OTR Data message using the given AES key, and displays
the message.
- If newmsg is given, replace the message with that one, encrypt
and MAC it properly, and output the resulting OTR Data Message.
This works even if the given key was not correct for the original
message, so as to enable complete forgeries.
- otr_modify mackey old_text new_text offset
- Even if you can't read the data because you don't know either
the AES key or the Diffie-Hellman private key, but you can make a
good guess that the substring "old_text" appears at the given
offset in the message, replace the old_text with the new_text
(which must be of the same length), recalculate the MAC with the
given mackey, and output the resulting Data message.
- Note that, even if you don't know any text in an existing message,
you can still forge messages of your choice using the
otr_readforge command, above.
- otr_remac mackey sender_instance receiver_instance flags snd_keyid
rcv_keyid pubkey counter encdata revealed_mackeys
- Make a new OTR protocol version 3 Data Message, with the given
pieces (note that the data part is already encrypted). MAC it
with the given mackey.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+-------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+-------------------------+
|Availability | communication/im/libotr |
+---------------+-------------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+-------------------------+
SEE ALSO
Off-the-Record Messaging, at https://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
<https://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/>
AUTHOR
otr_toolkit was written by the OTR Dev Team <otr@cypherpunks.ca>.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://otr.cypher-
punks.ca/libotr-4.1.1.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/.
March 14, 2012 OTR_PARSE(1)