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 export private OTR keys. The extracted key 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. See the github repo.

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

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Copyright 2016 by David R. Andersen <k0rx@RXcomm.net>.

This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
any later version.

This script is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with this library.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

This script will read a Conversations database from an Android phone
and output the OTR private keys for each account in the...