[OTR-users] Cannot generate private keys with Pidgin 2.0.2 & pidgin-otr-3.0.0 win32

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Mon Jul 30 10:20:49 EDT 2007


On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 10:22:32PM +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:
> Ian Goldberg wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 04:48:31AM +0200, Marko Kraljevic wrote:
> >>Ian I had Digest turned on, so now I don't know how to reply to your
> >>message, sorry! :/
> >>
> >>Once the pulldown is touched, everything is fine. Keys were
> >>auto-generated once I registered another account and initiated a
> >>secure conversation with myself. Never had a problem with manually
> >>generating keys in the past, that's what made me post to the list.
> >
> >Pidgin only knew about one account when the bug happened?  If so, that's
> >a useful place for me to start looking for the problem.  Although there
> >was recently a patch sent in to simplify the account-list handling code,
> >so maybe that will just take care of it.
> >
> 
> Ian, I've just installed Pidgin OTR on a laptop running Windows Vista, 
> and I see the same problem with two accounts, one AIM the other MSN. 
> Initiating IMs to correspondents caused the keys to be generated, but 
> the Generate button does nothing on its own. I've never seen this happen 
> with XP so if I can help with debugging let me know what I need to do.
> 
> Opening the plugin preferences shows no keys until the account is 
> selected, the keys are not read by default it appears. Might be 
> something in the way that Vista does things, I wonder if Marko is using 
> it, he doesn't say.
> 
> FWIW the otr fingerprint and key files appear in 
> C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\.purple which is obviously a 
> different location from where XP stores it.
> 
> Puzzling!

Hmm.  I have no idea what the problem is, but the code that handles that
menu and the Generate button has been greatly simplified in 3.1.0, so
once that version comes out (this week, we hope), could you see if that
fixes it?

Thanks,

   - Ian



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