[OTR-users] OTR suddenly not connecting

[Ian Goldberg]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:09:03PM -0400, Bits wrote:
> I just gave Wireshark a go - getting inside this stream's going to be a
> pain - all Wireshark's showing me is that everything's happening inside
> SSL/TLS.  I suppose that means to get meaningful messages Pidgin needs to
> be run through some kinda of decrypting HTTPS proxy server, MitM style.
> 
> Not really sure how to do that; the proxy would need to gen certs on the
> fly and sign them with a key Pidgin can be made to trust.  Is there an
> easier way?

In your pidgin Accounts list, you can set your ICQ account to not use
TLS.

   - Ian