Pidgin / Finch users x Microsoft certificate error

I still have some social life with non-geek friends who keep using MSN for instant messaging. I’m currently using Finch, which is a libpurple-based IM. If you’re in a similar situation, so you probably came to this post due to a certificate error message from Microsoft servers when trying to start your Finch (or Pidgin).

All you need is download the following updated certificates from Pidgin website and replace them into your purple installation dir (probably in /usr/share/purple/ca-certs):

http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/downloadfile/cd236baf6d00f3e1561a40974ce1828b793ea187/share/ca-certs/Microsoft_Secure_Server_Authority_2010.pem

http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/downloadfile/cd236baf6d00f3e1561a40974ce1828b793ea187/share/ca-certs/Microsoft_Internet_Authority_2010.pem

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4 Comments

Greg

Posted November 20, 2010 at 12:32 | Permalink | Reply

Didn’t work I’m afraid.
Ben Hutchings

Posted November 20, 2010 at 14:07 | Permalink | Reply

Ooh yes let’s all install unauthenticated CA certificates. What could possibly go wrong?
Cesar Augusto Rodrigues de Oliveira

Posted November 21, 2010 at 11:32 | Permalink | Reply

Pidgin Certificado inválido 21-11-2010 resolução do problema
Mnemosyne

Posted November 23, 2010 at 17:32 | Permalink | Reply

You see, to be your friend is to read the solution before even knowing to have a problem. “There goes Tiago talking geeky stuff again, I won’t even bother… wait, what’s this error message here on Pidgin?”
Well, thank you, it seems to be working fine now.

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