[OTR-dev] Pidgin + Yahoo not support SMP?

[Ian Goldberg]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:26:57PM -0700, chris-tuchs at hushmail.com wrote:
> I just ran a pidgin to pidgin via yahoo test of SMP.  It doesn't 
> seem to work with the MSS set to 799 or to 640 using the method I 
> described in my previous email.  Alice and Bob have a private 
> (authenticated) conversation.  Alice and Bob are able to send each 
> other 2000 character IMs which OTR seems to encrypt, fragment, 
> reassemble, and decrypt correctly.  Alice does "Authenticate buddy" 
> and uses "Type the word secret" as the question and "secret" as the 
> answer.  Bob enters secret when prompted, presses the authenticate 
> button.  Both Alice and Bob see a progress bar dialog box that 
> remains stalled.  I have not run the test in a 3-men-in-the-middle 
> configuration so I have no data on the actual messages sent and 
> received.

You'd only need a single MITM to test pidgin<->pidgin.  I'd appreciate
it if you could tell me which messages aren't getting through.

Thanks,

   - Ian