New subject: [Bug 335547] silc-toolkit (Pidgin) can't handle public keys

21 Oct 2007

      https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=335547

           Summary: silc-toolkit (Pidgin) can't handle public keys
           Product: openSUSE 10.3
           Version: Final
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Other
        AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com
        ReportedBy: td@pre-secure.de
         QAContact: qa@suse.de
          Found By: ---

After updating to openSUSE 10.3 my Silc accounts were not working in Pidgin
anymore. After trying to log in into a Silc server the following errors
occurred:

  Error encoding SILC public key identifier
  Error during key exchange with sauna.silcnet.org: Unexpected error occurred

With silc-toolkit 1.0.x everything was working fine.

The culprit seems to be

  silc-toolkit-1.1.2-14

because after manually updating to

  silc-toolkit-1.1.3

everything was working again. This also fits to the descriptions found in the
release notes:

  http://silcnet.org/docs/release/SILC%20Toolkit%201.1.3

Tested with:

  pidgin-2.1.1-13
  libpurple-2.1.1-13

Note:
Apparently silc-toolkit 1.1.x also handles private keys (for a user and not a
server) differently. Another error message given after the update, when trying
to connect to a server was

  Malformed SILC private key

and occurred for both silc-toolkit 1.1.2 and 1.1.3. The solution here was to
create a new user key pair.

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