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Good Open Source, Multi-Platform, Secure IM Client?

Posted by Soulskill on from the real-time-tps-report-updates dept.

Phil O. writes "I work for a company with 30+ locations across North America. Some offices have hundreds of employees; some only a dozen. We're looking for a secure, multi-platform IM client we could implement across the organization. One group is pushing for Microsoft's solution, but it has a number of drawbacks (including cost). What other options are out there, and what has worked well in similar situations? Security is a big concern for the company."

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  1. Multi-platform by jkinney3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Microsofts solution is NOT multiplatform. Anything that runs jabber protocol has a multiplatform client.

  2. Re:jabber by rlp · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I agree - not too hard to set up your own jabber server with an SSL connection. If you REALLY want to be secure, you won't rely on someone elses server.

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  3. Re:Pidgin? by Liam · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Kerberos will authenticate without storing or sending passwords. It works for email, remote login (ssh, telnet, rlogin), file service (AFS, ftp) and web as well. Pidgin supports Kerberos, though you wouldn't know it to look at the documentation; it took me a while to realize I needed to load the Debian package libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit.

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  4. Re:Pidgin + OTR by Bert64 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most likely the MSN bug in pidgin is due to having to reverse engineer the protocol every time it gets changed...

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  5. Re:jabber by Britz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the clients use end-to-end encryption and share the password through a secure different channel (e.g. encrypted email) does it really matter if the server is your own?