Re: Fwd: about accounts file

2013-08-25 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, August 24, 2013 a las 03:53:21PM -0400, Ethan Blanton escribió: Tres Finocchiaro spake unto us the following wisdom: I've never much understood Pidgins perspective on this. Even base64 is obscure enough to keep a human from reading it over the shoulder. Unless your

IRC TOR Proxy Settings

2013-08-25 Thread BitMessage
I'm unable to get Pidgin working with Freenode IRC using SASL/TOR with Pidgin. On AndChat the IRC client for Android, the settings are listed under SASL (I don't find any SASL in Pidgin, but when adding an IRC server account, there is in the Proxy tab and option TOR Privacy/SOCKS 5 so I am

Re: IRC TOR Proxy Settings

2013-08-25 Thread Ethan Blanton
BitMessage spake unto us the following wisdom: I'm unable to get Pidgin working with Freenode IRC using SASL/TOR with Pidgin. What version of Pidgin are you using? IRC SASL was not introduced until 2.10.7. I suspect you are using an older version. Ethan

Re: Fwd: about accounts file

2013-08-25 Thread Ethan Blanton
Matthias Apitz spake unto us the following wisdom: El día Saturday, August 24, 2013 a las 03:53:21PM -0400, Ethan Blanton escribió: Unless your password is very, very bad, a base64 encoding of the password should be of roughly similar complexity. Therefore, anyone who can remember your

Re: Fwd: about accounts file

2013-08-25 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, August 25, 2013 a las 09:04:42AM -0400, Ethan Blanton escribió: Right -- if your passwords are *really really bad* and stupid, it matters. If that's the case, though, you need to get new passwords ASAP. My passwords are things like Oj4=puC/8jq, which is of similar complexity

[Fwd: Re: IRC TOR Proxy Settings]

2013-08-25 Thread Ethan Blanton
Back to the list... ---BeginMessage--- Hi, yes see my earlier reply just now, but .7 is not working well as all with freenode, it is giving all kinds of problems to login, but .3 just worked and worked (but no tor nor sasl of course). But i'd rather have a working pidgin on irc than nothing.

Re: [Fwd: Re: IRC TOR Proxy Settings]

2013-08-25 Thread Ethan Blanton
Hi, yes see my earlier reply just now, but .7 is not working well as all with freenode, it is giving all kinds of problems to login, but .3 just worked and worked (but no tor nor sasl of course). But i'd rather have a working pidgin on irc than nothing. now i'm with nothing due to countless

Re: Fwd: about accounts file

2013-08-25 Thread Ethan Blanton
Matthias Apitz spake unto us the following wisdom: $ echo 'Oj4=puC/8jq' | openssl enc -base64 T2o0PXB1Qy84anEK If your assertion is that someone will remember Oj4=puC/8jq but not T2o0PXB1Qy84anEK, then your argument has descended into the realm of the absurd. To effectively snatch either one

Re: Fwd: about accounts file

2013-08-25 Thread Tres Finocchiaro
And similarly, if your argument, that all passwords must be difficult to type and must be near impossible to read over the shoulder or else they are REALLY BAD, which in turn makes the user STUPID seems naive and ignorant to any basic practical, efficient, easy to remember methods of

Re: Fwd: about accounts file

2013-08-25 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, August 25, 2013 a las 12:49:45PM -0400, Ethan Blanton escribió: Matthias Apitz spake unto us the following wisdom: $ echo 'Oj4=puC/8jq' | openssl enc -base64 T2o0PXB1Qy84anEK If your assertion is that someone will remember Oj4=puC/8jq but not T2o0PXB1Qy84anEK, then your

Using Google Talk associated with university domain

2013-08-25 Thread Jack Blanton
I would like to use Pidgin with an email account provided by my university. The email is @virginia.edu but it is powered by gmail and is basically identical to gmail. I would like to use the Google talk/gchat on Pidgin, but I am unsure how to add the account. Any help you could offer would be

Re: Using Google Talk associated with university domain

2013-08-25 Thread Wade Smart
-- Registered Linux User: #480675 Registered Linux Machine: #408606 Linux since June 2005 On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Jack Blanton jeb...@virginia.edu wrote: I would like to use Pidgin with an email account provided by my university. The email is @virginia.edu but it is powered by gmail

Re: Using Google Talk associated with university domain

2013-08-25 Thread Tres Finocchiaro
Jack, I had success doing this: http://klo2k.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/connecting-to-corporate-business-gmail-chat-im-through-pidgin/ The google search term pidgin corporate gmail seemed to isolate the success stories. Hope this helps. On Aug 25, 2013 3:27 PM, Jack Blanton jeb...@virginia.edu

Re: Fwd: about accounts file

2013-08-25 Thread Ethan Blanton
Tres Finocchiaro spake unto us the following wisdom: And similarly, if your argument, that all passwords must be difficult to type and must be near impossible to read over the shoulder or else they are REALLY BAD, which in turn makes the user STUPID seems naive and ignorant to any basic

Re: Fwd: about accounts file

2013-08-25 Thread Ethan Blanton
Matthias Apitz spake unto us the following wisdom: I think 'Oj4=puC/8jq' is much easier to memorize due to the fact, that it has 3 groups of 3 chars each: Oj4 puC 8jq, separated by '=' and '/', while the token T2o0PXB1Qy84anEK is much complex to memorize, don't you agree? That's a random