Inconvenienced Electrons

I just installed Pidgin. Previously I was using an old version of the official AIM client. I was using AIM’s secure certificate mechanism. Unfortunately no one I know still uses the official aim client and so the cryptography was never used. It used to work very well. I became a certificate authority to all my friends. Then I issued everyone a key and it was great.

Now that all my friends are using Pidgin, GAim, or other smaller/older aim clients. I chose Pidgin because it is still undergoing active development but it is still trusted and mature. I installed the Pidgin-encrypt and off-the-record. Pidgin-encrypt provides nice cryptography. Off-the-record isn’t as secure, but it doesn’t stop message injection. I have both because some friends have one or the other.