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Subject: Re: encrypted irc ?
From: Adam (adamnine.net)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 23:25:45 CDT

Client to client encryption has been done. I see no reason to encrypt
client to server communcations, unless you are worried about someone
intercepting that traffic (e.g. channel key or irc operator password). Now
client to client encryption makes sense because that would secure your
conversation. All you have to do is exchange a key using DH, ECC, RSA or
whatever with whoever you want to talk with and then use that key with some
symmetric cipher to encrypt all your messages. You'd also have to convert
it to base64 to send it over IRC. This could all be done with a simple
script for whatever client you use. No special client or server would be
needed and your conversation would be secure provided the people you talked
to used the same script. I have an ircII script somewhere that does this,
if anyone is interested they can e-mail me and I will try to find it.

- Adam

s.c.i.p writes:

> hi,
>
> does anybody know of an irc server which supports encryption (plus a
> proper client)?
>
>
> regards, Thomas
>
> --
> => PGP key: http://daemon.de/key.txt
> => "Experience is what you got when
> => you did not get what you wanted."
>