There seems to be an issue with pidgin-encryption 3.0 and Pidgin 2.7.1 (and 2.7.0). It appears as though it affects both the portable and locally installed versions of Pidgin. As such, I just wanted to post a note about the issue in case anyone else was experiencing the problem so they would NOT blame the portable version.
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DEBUG:
(15:00:04) plugins: probing F:\PortableApps\PidginPortable\App\Pidgin\plugins\encrypt.dll
(15:00:04) plugins: F:\PortableApps\PidginPortable\App\Pidgin\plugins\encrypt.dll is not loadable: `F:\PortableApps\PidginPortable\App\Pidgin\plugins\encrypt.dll': The specified module could not be found.
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DIRECTORY:
F:\PortableApps\PidginPortable\App\Pidgin\plugins
>dir encry*.*
Volume in drive F is xxxxxxxxxxx
Volume Serial Number is xxxx-xxxx
Directory of F:\PortableApps\PidginPortable\App\Pidgin\plugins
05/06/2007 11:40 PM 486,704 encrypt.dll
1 File(s) 486,704 bytes
0 Dir(s) 781,008,896 bytes free
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I have not yet found a fix on either:
http://pidgin-encrypt.sourceforge.net/
-or-
http://developer.pidgin.im/
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The closest item(s) I found was: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11979
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11979
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