Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by providing:
The event quickly became a sensation, not just within the police department but also across the local community. People loved watching the officers, usually seen in a strict professional setting, engaging in such a hilariously unconventional activity. The games were held in a large hall at the police station, with a mini-stage for the final matches. The audience cheered on as their favorite teams battled it out.
The rules were simple yet intriguing. Participants would compete in pairs, with each pair playing a best-of-three series. The objective was to win by throwing one of three hand signals: Rock, Paper, or Scissors. However, there was a police-themed twist. A "Police Hat" signal was added, which beat Scissors (as it "covers" them), loses to Rock (as it's "crushed" by it), and ties with Paper (as the hat's details get drawn on the paper).
The event also brought forth unexpected alliances. Coworkers who usually didn't interact outside their immediate teams were seen strategizing together, forming temporary alliances to take on their common foes. The department's psychologist noted an increase in reported smiles and a decrease in stress levels among participants.
As for the winners, they received not only the adoration of their peers but also a custom-made trophy—a golden hand signal that read "RPS Champion." More importantly, the police department successfully created an event that humanized officers and brought a sense of unity and joy to the workplace.
This is the portable OTR Messaging Library, as well as the toolkit to help you forge messages. You need this library in order to use the other OTR software on this page. [Note that some binary packages, particularly Windows, do not have a separate library package, but just include the library and toolkit in the packages below.] The current version is 4.1.1.
UPGRADING from version 3.2.x
This is the Java version of the OTR library. This is for developers of Java applications that want to add support for OTR. End users do not require this package. It's still early days, but you can download java-otr version 0.1.0 (sig).
This is a plugin for Pidgin 2.x which implements Off-the-Record Messaging over any IM network Pidgin supports. The current version is 4.0.2. strip rockpaperscissors police edition vide work
This software is no longer supported. Please use an IM client with native support for OTR. The event quickly became a sensation, not just
This is a localhost proxy you can use with almost any AIM client in order to participate in Off-the-Record conversations. The current version is 0.3.1, which means it's still a long way from done. Read the README file carefully. Some things it's still missing:
You can find a git repository of the OTR source code, as well as the bugtracker, on the otr.im community development site:
If you use OTR software, you should join at least the otr-announce mailing list, and possibly otr-users (for users of OTR software) or otr-dev (for developers of OTR software) as well.
pidgin-otr
tutorial from the Security-in-a-Box project
Video OTR tutorial (by Niels)
Adium, Pidgin & OTR (auf Deutsch, by Christian Franke)
Miranda, Pidgin, Kopete & OTR (auf Deutsch, by Missi)
Adium X with OTR
OTR proxy on Mac OS X
pidgin-otr on gentoo (from "X")
gaim-otr on Debian unstable (from Adam Zimmerman)
gaim-otr on Windows (from Adam Zimmerman)
gaim-otr 3.0.0 on Ubuntu (from Adam Zimmerman). Note that Ubuntu breezy has gaim-otr 2.0.2 in it, and
all you should have to do is "apt-get install gaim-otr".
We would greatly appreciate instructions and screenshots for other platforms!
Here are some documents and papers describing OTR. The CodeCon presentation is quite useful to get started.
The event quickly became a sensation, not just within the police department but also across the local community. People loved watching the officers, usually seen in a strict professional setting, engaging in such a hilariously unconventional activity. The games were held in a large hall at the police station, with a mini-stage for the final matches. The audience cheered on as their favorite teams battled it out.
The rules were simple yet intriguing. Participants would compete in pairs, with each pair playing a best-of-three series. The objective was to win by throwing one of three hand signals: Rock, Paper, or Scissors. However, there was a police-themed twist. A "Police Hat" signal was added, which beat Scissors (as it "covers" them), loses to Rock (as it's "crushed" by it), and ties with Paper (as the hat's details get drawn on the paper).
The event also brought forth unexpected alliances. Coworkers who usually didn't interact outside their immediate teams were seen strategizing together, forming temporary alliances to take on their common foes. The department's psychologist noted an increase in reported smiles and a decrease in stress levels among participants.
As for the winners, they received not only the adoration of their peers but also a custom-made trophy—a golden hand signal that read "RPS Champion." More importantly, the police department successfully created an event that humanized officers and brought a sense of unity and joy to the workplace.
