If that's DH exchange, then it's 128 bit one. Fertile ground
for some interesting speculation, don't you think ?

There is no speculation. It is 128-bit DH.

I have reported over three years ago to the Trillian forum that they are using 128-bit DH and that it is not secure. You can look up my messages about it and how much I got abused for it by everyone trying to explain to me that 1) it IS secure and 2) no one cares anyway. They did not change it since then although they promised to. I'd also made an open-source replacement DLL back then with 512-bit ECDH, which also supported their 128-bit DH clients if they initiated secure communication first, but it may have some compatibility issues with later versions of Trillian. It's supposed to display the common key fingerprint, not sure if it works now. Feel free to correct it and to improve it, but Cerulean Studios won't pay for it. It's still on http://cryptolib.com/ruptor/

Marcos el Ruptor

PS: There was also a buffer overflow in their original DLL if you send a very long key. I don't know if they have fixed it or not. I haven't used Trillian since I bought a Mac.

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