Screenshots

Screenshots courtesy of Kurt Erickson

Here's the config dialog that you can get to from the Pidgin plugins menu. From here you can:

• Regenerate a private key, if you want to change its size from the default 1024 bits, or if you think that it might be compromised.
• Adjust the notification settings for accepting keys from other users
• Tell the plugin whether or not to send a notification with the first unencrypted message that you send someone. This way, people can tell that you have the plugin loaded, since their lock icons will turn green.
• Tell the plugin to automatically turn on outgoing encryption, if it sees an incoming notification with a message.

Downloads:

Source: v 3.1: Available here
for use with Pidgin 2.x. Here are the installation instructions.

Subversion: Instructions. The SVN build should work with the current Pidgin Monotone build. If it doesn't, IM me: BillTompkins2 on AIM.

Fedora: You can find an RPM for Fedora Core at FreshRPMs or at Dries.

Mandriva: In the distribution, just "urpmi pidgin-encryption"

Gentoo: In the distribution, just "emerge pidgin-encryption"

Debian: In the distribution, just "apt-get install pidgin-encryption".

Ubuntu: In Ubuntu's "Universe" as Pidgin-Encryption.

Windows: Download the Win32 self-extracting binary. Or, if you'd like, here are some instructions on how to build it yourself.