Re: Pidgin 2.7.3 on Maemo5 - SSL certificates for MSN invalid

2010-11-22 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, November 21, 2010 a las 12:09:39PM -0500, Etan Reisner escribió: People don't understand certificates. At all. Which is why they were perfectly willing to download certificates for the omega server from any blog/host that happened to have them up. That page is hosted on the

Re: Pidgin 2.7.3 on Maemo5 - SSL certificates for MSN invalid

2010-11-22 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, November 22, 2010 a las 10:35:36AM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió: I've right now compiled 2.7.6 on FreeBSD 8.x. It has two issues: 1) the MSN certificate issue; the certificate is not validated after the start of pidgin; it takes a while and it seems that if pidgin contacts

Re: Pidgin 2.7.3 on Maemo5 - SSL certificates for MSN invalid

2010-11-21 Thread Etan Reisner
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 02:35:14PM +0100, Marvin Crazy Al Jansen wrote: Dear sir/madam, as you probably know, Pidgin on Maemo has been having difficulties with the MSN certificates, omega.contacts.msn.com in particular. I tried fixing this by searching on Google, but it did me no help. The

Re: Pidgin 2.7.3 on Maemo5 - SSL certificates for MSN invalid

2010-11-21 Thread David Woolley
Etan Reisner wrote: To answer this again: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/MSNCertIssue As this is telling people to do something potentially dangerous, I think it should also tell them to check that the issuer and subject on each certificate is different, i.e. that they are not being fed a

Re: Pidgin 2.7.3 on Maemo5 - SSL certificates for MSN invalid

2010-11-21 Thread Etan Reisner
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 04:45:34PM +, David Woolley wrote: Etan Reisner wrote: To answer this again: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/MSNCertIssue As this is telling people to do something potentially dangerous, I think it should also tell them to check that the issuer and subject on