All,

Quick update: we had to delay AIM client upgrade due to other integration,
the date is tbd.
I will answer your questions in the coming weeks.


Thanks,


*Donald Le*
*Tech Director | Product Management and Support AIM Platform*
*O*: 703-265-5645 | *M*: 703-678-1073
*AIM*: [email protected]
*AOL Inc*. 22070 Broderick Drive Dulles, VA 20166

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 2:58 AM, dequis <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, I have a couple of questions, since there may have been a
> misunderstanding here.
>
> Pidgin currently supports three auth methods for AIM:
>
> - MD5 using slogin.oscar.aol.com. Uses the DistID, does not use the DevID
>
> - clientLogin aka OpenAuth using
> api.screenname.aol.com/auth/clientLogin. Uses DistID and DevID. Has
> been the default setting for pidgin releases since 2009
>
> - Kerberos using kdc.uas.aol.com. Uses DistID and DevID. Introduced in
> pidgin 2.11.0, released four months ago.
>
> If I'm understanding this right, the first method is being
> discontinued and the other two will continue working. It's possible a
> lot of users are using that - the account setting is a bit too
> visible, so users might just switch to it for the sake of changing
> settings. But as far as I can see, pidgin with the default
> configuration won't stop working.
>
> What I don't understand is why we're changing the DistID and DevID.
> I'm 90% sure that clientlogin sends both in the same way as the
> official client. Did the previous ones get invalidated?
>
> We're currently using these:
>
> Pidgin
> DistID: 1550
> DevID: ma1cSASNCKFtrdv9
>
> Finch:
> DistID: 1552
> DevID: ma19sqWV9ymU6UYc
>
> Libpurple:
> DistID: 1553
> DevID: ma15d7JTxbmVG-RP
>
> The source code says they are owned by the AIM account "markdoliner".
>
> Are these still valid? If they are, I think you can go ahead and pull
> the plug of the old auth method.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On 14 October 2016 at 01:11, Gary Kramlich <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Donald,
> >
> > This is Gary Kramlich the current maintainer of Pidgin.  Please excuse
> > my tardiness in this matter as I haven't had much time to dedicate to
> > Pidgin in the past few weeks.
> >
> > That said.  We are staging a new version which will have this updates,
> > but we will most likely miss the 20161016 date.  If we could get that
> > extended it would be great.
> >
> > Also our code base has contains two clients that connect to AIM and as
> > I've learned recently they do not share keys.  The other clients name
> > is Finch and if we could get a set of keys for it that would be
> > awesome.  Otherwise we'll just reuse the Pidgin ones for the time
> > being.
> >
> > Also is there a web portal or something where we can manage this keys?
> >  If so, please respond to me directly as I assume we'll want to
> > control access to it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Gary Kramlich <[email protected]>
> >
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