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Security tip request

Hi, i would like that coccinella had a masterlock or some special icon when an user establish a secured connection. Actually i don´t know if a server support secured connection or i have a secured connection.

Thank you for the attention pleased.

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When a server does not support a secured connection while you try to connect in a secured way, you will get an error that the connection failed and no unsecure connection will be established AFAIK. Can you explain why such a lock can be still useful and how it can be put in the interface without distracting stupid end users who don't know what this lock means?

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Mvg, Sander Devrieze.

"When a server does not support a secured connection while you try to connect in a secured way, you will get an error that the connection failed and no unsecure connection will be established AFAIK"

Actually I don´t get any error of a failed connection when i try to connect a server. And there´s no way to know if i stablished a secured connection or not. Even if the server supports some authentication method.

For example i tried a secured connection with my Enterprise Jabber Server activating the "use SASL Authentication" in "use secure connection" option. The server doesn´t support it, but conccinella didn´t get any error and i had to call server ADministrator to know if i had a secure connection (of course i didn´t have a secured connection). When i used the "use TLS and SASL" the Administrator told me that i had a secured connection but conccinella never informed me about that...

A small lock with context messagge "you established a secured connection" with a mouse point could be ussefull. The Empresarial IM is using jabber thinking in security and secured connections....

Hi,

This bug is marked as "Fixed released" in version 0.96.4, but I can't see the lock in the latest version...

I am very interested in this feature, being able to know when the connection is encrypted or not is very important.

Regards,
Nicolas.

When the connection is encrypted you will see a lock icon in the bottom right corner of the main dialog with your contacts. Else, nothing is showed.