It’s the same reason I haven’t switched to Linux yet

2006/12/11 in security

Lately I was fighting against Miranda and my wish to enable GnuPG encryption with it. I was about to give up, because my goal was to chat, but a part of me thought, that I could already do that. So there was not much (maybe even nothing) to gain, was it? (I could now give it a positive direction, that it’s worth the extra work nonetheless, because you, in fact, DO gain something worth the trouble, but… )

What really made me angry were those plugins, there are douzends, but all have different kinds of problems.

The ugliest problem on the end was the sound, every incoming and outgoing (encrypted) message made a sound, I tried to deactivate it, but it didn’t work. After deleting the wav files, Miranda used the PC-Speaker to torture me. It was just like 1991 again. The only solution I’ve found was to enable sounds again, but use wav files without sound… Audacity did the trick. Fantastic program by the way.

Now everything’s running and it’s working really well, the only drawback I noticed so far, is that gpg.exe is started and closed every time a message is sent or received, which visibly slows down things a bit. Like 1 second per message.

Now that I think about it again, file transfer still doesn’t work for Jabber…

Dreadful (and necessary) plugins mentioned:

SecureIM, Crypto++, and Popup…