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1007··on (Pidgin's) SSL support appears to have been written by a lobotomy victim
The author of this ticket isn't exaggerating when he states that "MITMing this crawling horror would be no more difficult than a plain, unencrypted TCP connection".

That's how bad it is.

1007··on Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
Any way to download and read this on linux ?
1007··on Govt of India proposes to ban SSH (Or wants you to use 40 bit keys)
40 bit key length for RSA is just trolls. 768 bit keys have already been cracked, so you could probably crack these with a calculator.