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A friend sent me an offline Google Talk message that was encrypted via Pidgin-Encryption. It didn't appear in my Pidgin logs because I wasn't logged in when it was sent, but I do have the encrypted message in my Google Talk logs. I have her public key as well as my own private key stored in my .purple directory. How can I use these to decrypt the message?
Taymon
Posted 2013-12-29T05:07:10.590
Reputation: 143
As far as I know, pidgin doesn't support encryption, Maybe the message was encrypted using OTR ( off the record messaging ). I thought that OTR creates temporary session keys and exchanges them using the public/private key pair, if this really is the case, the easiest ( and probably only ) way to decrypt the message would be to ask your friend what she wrote! But as I said: I don"t know for sure if this is the case. – FSMaxB – 2013-12-30T16:42:55.657
Pidgin-Encryption exists, and apparently uses RSA. – Taymon – 2013-12-31T02:32:57.217
You may take a look at "openssl rsautl". – FSMaxB – 2013-12-31T12:39:35.707
I did, but haven't been able to figure out how to make it recognize the keys. – Taymon – 2013-12-31T20:26:53.540