Yahoo Restored in Some IM Clients

Sparks23 writes "Third-party instant messaging clients have begun to reconnect to Yahoo. While the authorization scheme has not been completely decoded -- expect some bumps -- Gaim and Trillian have both partially restored connectivity. Gaim has the new authorization scheme in CVS and their new 0.70 release, and Cerulean has made a beta patch available for Trillian Pro 2.0; consider both patches 'beta' for the moment."

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new ym

[fredopalus]

And a new version of Yahoo Messenger is out.

ayttm restored on Sunday

[Shin Dig]

Ayttm http://ayttm.sourceforge.net had restored service on Sunday, including a 0.4.2 release that included the new support. I think it was the first of the Open Source clients to make it back on line.

And for other flame bate, it also support GPG encryption of packets over any IM protocol, and is interoperable with Kopete's encryption as well.

Money talks

[Westech]

According to their homepage, Trillian is currently only releasing the patch to paying customers.

Re:Money talks

[rmohr02]

According to the Gaim website, Trillian submitted the patch to Gaim as well as their paying customers. My opinion of Cerulean Studios has just improved.

For OS X users ...

[paxcirca]

The latest release of Fire, v.0.32.f, also restored Yahoo! connectivity. The MSN network will be blocked on October 15th, though.

Re:For OS X users ...

[the_proton]

Another multi-service IM application for Mac OS X Proteus will have the Yahoo! connectivity restored in an official release later today. Until then, there is an updated Yahoo plugin available from this forum thread.

Additionally, Proteus 3.02 and later shouldn't have any problems with the MSN network, provided Microsoft don't have any tricks up their sleeve.

- proton

Re:Everyone wants to win

[colinleroy]

You're completely wrong. Their spokewoman stated that "We're open and interested in talking with all providers that share our common goal of opening the IM community in a seamless, convenient and secure manner."
(see this news.com.com article).

Re:I read your chat

[Creepy Crawler]

Let's see.. You enable forwarding, shim the gateway (via ettercap or arpspoof), and then start a capture program.

Ethereal has a neat feature as "Follow TCP stream". And if you know anything about TCP, there's a sequence number that allows easy "digestion" of the conversation.

And there's DSNIFF, which does he similar things, but with auth protocols. There's a few others, but I dont want to encourage the kiddies.

Re:This story can also be found at

[LiquidCoooled]

errrrrrrrrrrr dont mean to burst your bubble, but this link is ancient - it was published in 2001.
It involves the MSN Messenger crash and chaos that caused:

MSN Messenger Restored, But Some Buddies Lost Service is running after a week of intermittent problems, but some data destroyed.

Jennifer DiSabatino, Computerworld Tuesday, July 10, 2001

Re:MSN?

[puck71]

October 15 is the announced lock-out date for older versions of the client.

Re:libYahoo

[Speed Racer]

Didn't the GAIM team get the fix from Cerulean? At least that's what they seem to say here.

Re:"Cracking" protocoles and DMCA?

[headkase]

Actually, reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability is expressly permitted by the DMCA. Under the current laws the best Yahoo! or MSN can hope to do is stay one step ahead in an IM arms race - locking out competing clients until they reverse engineer the protocol again.

Re:GAIM CVS?

[dabuk]

0.70 (which has the fix) is in unstable now. It's not in testing or stable.

Re:Cooperation (no, QAing)

[wo1verin3]

>> Trillian people didn't make this patch
>> available in their free version,

Not yet. The Pro version was first priority but have announced patches will be available for all versions.

Yahoo Patch Beta 1 is available for Pro customers; patches for 1.0 and .74 are on the way and will be released once the patch is 100%...

Source: http://www.trillian.cc/ (Bottom right of page)

Re:Cooperation (no, QAing)

[ChipX86]

You know what they say about "assume."

We helped Trillian awhile back connect to Yahoo when they changed the protocol. They're returning the favor. We have a good relationship with the Trillian people.

Re:Cooperation

[drinkypoo]

Try the URL referenced in the title under "Gaim" - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/. The top news item says "Our friends over at Cerulean Studios managed to break my speed record at cracking Yahoo authentication schemes with an impressive feat of hackery. They sent it over and here it is in Gaim 0.70."

Okay, so a site ain't an article, but all you had to do was follow a link, and there it is. Train harder, grasshopper.

Try reading the homepage first

[Lizard_King]

Quoth Cerulean: "Yahoo Patch Beta 1 is available for Pro customers; patches for 1.0 and .74 are on the way and will be released once the patch is 100%... "

That's right on their homepage. Its in the "News" column. I couldn't find anywhere on their site that said they're only releasing to paying customers. Stop the FUD please. Cerulean Studios creates a good product and has a good history of responding to protocol changes and communicating to customers.

Trillian 0.74E -- transitory solution

[ciurana]

Greetings,

Like a lot of people here I was experiencing the crashes every time Trillian tried to connect to Yahoo! Messenger. The quick and dirty solution is to go into your Trillian directory and rename yahoo.dll to whatever else, then start the program. All the other services will work just fine.

This may be a way to remain on-line until a patch is offered for 0.74. The current patch is only good for 2.0 Pro, as far as I know.

Cheers!

Eugene