CryptChat, a little off topic, so please don't kill me. :-)

[Clayton Haapala]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:04:35PM -0400, Rich wrote:
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:04:35 -0400
> 
>   Allow me to post just a quick comment about a cool little
> project that Timo recently started hacking on.
> 
>   It's a console based p2p encrypted chat program for linux and
> Win32 that uses DH key exchange and Blowfish symmetric encryption.
> It's called CryptChat and if anyone is interested in looking at it,
> or adding code. The URL is:
> 
>   http://www.winpt.org/cryptchat.
> 
>   Perhaps this is an additional program that could be added to the
> Gnu Privacy Project.    :-)
>  
The Jabber IM specs support "signed" presence and encrypted p2p messaging.
Gabber, a GNOME client, in particular, supports GPG for all that.  Still
a work in progress, but being actively developed.
-- 
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