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Secure IRC?

Posted by michael on from the /join-#security dept.

priikone writes: "IRC has had a lot of problems related to security and network scalability in the past, and recently as well. However, there is an alternative -- secure alternative to IRC; the Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC), which has all the same features IRC has, with addition of superior security, and hopefully more scalable and powerful network topology. It is for all those who cares who's listening. It works, and is of course all Open Source." We posted an article about another secure IRC system last year.

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  1. I don't expect secure IRC by wirefarm · · Score: 3, Funny

    And I don't expect pure water in gutters, either.
    Yet both seem to serve a purpose, don't they?

    Cheers,
    Jim in Tokyo

    --
    -- My Weblog.
  2. SIC by csbruce · · Score: 3, Funny

    secure alternative to IRC; the Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC)

    They should have called it just Secure Internet Conferencing (SIC). This term would provide connotations about the content and would help to excuse some of the spelling errors.

  3. The question is... by Nachtfalke · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...will it have pr0n and mp3?

  4. Gale by sjh · · Score: 2, Funny

    Check out gale:
    http://www.gale.org

    for a secure, open source messaging system...