On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 08:20:24PM -0800, Ryan Lackey wrote:
> The main competition for gale is:
> * IRC
> IRC is used by perhaps 100 000 users worldwide. IRC affords
> no message encryption, minimal authentication (identd is
> sometimes used, which is almost worse than nothing
this looks very interesting. however, the review contains one error.
while IRC itself doesn't include built-in encryption, people have been
chatting via encrypted messages over IRC for, i'd guess, 10 years.
ircII has included a CAST-128 implementation or about 18 months now
and has almost alway
(I just posted this epinions.com review of Gale, a secure multiplatform
open-source chat system. I figured I'd send the text to cypherpunks and
cryptography as well)
Gale is a secure, multiplatform, open-source chat system. Unlike systems
like ICQ and AIM, both the client AND the server are fre
