On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Sean Donelan wrote:
Encryption of IM will probably be as wide-spread as encryption of e-mail, i.e. not very. But with the existance of OpenSSL, implementing a SSL aware IM is just a small matter of code.
In case it's not a well-known project, I'll propose something I was recently introduced to (Hi Scott!), silc. http://www.silcnet.org/ "SILC has secure key exchange protocol that is used to create the session keys for each connection. SILC also provides strong authentication based on either passwords or public key authentication. All authentication data is always encrypted in the SILC network. Each connection has their own session keys, all channels have channel specific keys, and all private messages can be secured with private message specific keys." Easy to set up and use, and if you're familiar with irc, you can figure it out quickly. I'm quickly finding it to be most useful. Now back to round 500 of the peering debate. Charles
So instead of just saying no, how about coming up with same ways to solve the how to do it securely.