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Secure Internet Live Conferencing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-more-kiddiez dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Newsforge has an article about new generation secure chat protocol called SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing). The article features the protocol and its features like secure file transfer. Interesting article and very interesting protocol." We posted a story about SILC last year; looks like they've come a long way since then.

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  1. Cross Posting by jeremiahstanley · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm gonna be called a troll for this...

    But do we really have to cross post everything that gets posted on Newsforge? It is already sydicated everywhere else (linux.com, and others I'm sure).

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  2. Use stunnel, stupid by smnolde · · Score: 3, Interesting
    stunnel helps to encrypt normally non-encrypted data streams.

    I've got my own ircd which I require the clients to use stunnel or an ssl-enabled client to connect. Soon, I can limit access purely by accepted certs, thereby keeping lusers out.

    Of course the same can be done with OpenSSH. I use that at work to bypass my office firewall and use my home cable connection for a proxy to usenet, email, and other service. The best part of this is I can bypass my ofice proxy so they don't record where I netsurf. it looks a lot like a bunch of ftp and telnet to them.

    1. Re:Use stunnel, stupid by Kool_Cat · · Score: 2, Interesting
      And don't forget the boom of IM in the last few years, which has shown quite a few features which IRC is lacking...

      If anything, most of the IM software seems like a stripped-down IRC client: Connect to a server; check your notify list; send private messages to people; create "chats" and invite your friends in; send files to people on your notify list (I've never used MSN or AIM, do they even support file transfer?); and then a few external program launching that could easily be done by a client script.
      So what exactly is lacking in IRC? IRC has public "channels" as well as private chats, direct-connect chats and file-transfer, support for many clients and bots, even server-run moderation by control of the user. Will you miss your pretty flower? We could still use those sounds that everybody loves in IRC...

      All one really needs is a small notify list window (with right-click action) add-on for mIRC and suddenly people are using IRC again :) (hmmmm...I might just do that actually...) Then all that must be done is to link all those networks together, I'm sure irc.aol.com could hold a lot of those AOL kiddies among other users.
  3. we use a VPN with FreeS/WAN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    We (some friends) have built up a VPN via FreeS/WAN and use a private ircd on one of our VPN-boxes. A little perl script helps us to keep the VPN consistent due to our dynamic IP's.

    This is one of the more secure ways of doing secure communication i guess, and very comfortable, as dcc works too etc (as long as no box is getting hijacked security is almost perfect).