Re: GoldBug.sf.net - Secure Instant Messenger

2013-08-01 Thread Randolph D.
Thanks both, though I think new software deserves constructive criticisms and not some sort of brief and impulsive whims. But thank you for your time, so these items can be discussed by more experienced people. Don“t reduce a lot of work of developers into your personal interpretation of failures,

Re: GoldBug.sf.net - Secure Instant Messenger

2013-08-01 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > All in all, I am not impressed. ..but the joy of OpenSource projects is that you can help to fix these things and make it better! ;-) (ps thats just tongue in cheek comment...i have no affiliation/link to this project and havent seen the code/sf.net page or used the tool) alan _

Re: GoldBug.sf.net - Secure Instant Messenger

2013-08-01 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 31-07-2013 21:33, Randolph D. wrote: GoldBug.sf.net - Secure Instant Messenger http://goldbug.sourceforge.net/ Please evaluate the OpenSSL implemntation Any comments, is it really secure? as it implements the new echo chat protocol, which is designed for only non-plaint

Re: GoldBug.sf.net - Secure Instant Messenger

2013-08-01 Thread Stacy Devino
It does not specifically say what levels of these algorithms it is using. You can likely assume it is similar to 128bit AES with RSA, which is what many standard VPNs do. On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Randolph D. wrote: > GoldBug.sf.net - Secure Instant Messenger > http://goldbug.sourceforg

Re: Using TLS to establish SSH-like key based trust model

2013-08-01 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
Hi, I'd appreciate any feedback on the quoted message. I'm not experienced with the OpenSSL API and I had to dig into the library source code to achieve the custom result I needed. Thank you in advance, Dimitris On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: Hello list, I am trying to use

GoldBug.sf.net - Secure Instant Messenger

2013-08-01 Thread Randolph D.
GoldBug.sf.net - Secure Instant Messenger http://goldbug.sourceforge.net/ Please evaluate the OpenSSL implemntation Any comments, is it really secure? as it implements the new echo chat protocol, which is designed for only non-plaintext chat. Regards Randolph