convkey

A script to extract OTR private keys from the Conversations app on an Android phone

I think Conversations is a great xmpp client for Android. But sometimes I want to use a desktop client, and want to use the same OTR private key for the desktop that I do in Conversations. So I wrote the following script to extract private OTR keys. The output is given in both raw hex and in (base64'd) libotr format, so it can be imported into virtually any xmpp client that supports OTR.

With a little cleverness, the script could be adapted to modify or add OTR keys to the Conversations database. That is left as an exercise for the reader.

There are versions of the script for both rooted and nonrooted phones.

The script is available at: https://github.com/rxcomm/convkey