Anyone know what became of the Gaim-E Project?
John W. Moore III
jmoore3rd at bellsouth.net
Mon Nov 3 05:09:42 CET 2008
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Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> Interesting concept, however looks as if the project was abandoned.
>
> It died due to lack of interest, mostly. Some IM protocols require
> short message blocks; OpenPGP messages are usually quite long. Thus,
> Gaim-E was never able to support as many protocols as Gaim/Pidgin itself
> could.
>
> A different project, OTR, provides confidential instant messaging. I
> have some minor quibbles with it, but all in all, OTR seems to be the
> best thing going for IM confidentiality.
There is also a Plug-In for Pidgin called RSA Encryption that provides
seamless IM Encryption as well.
JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Sunday 02 Nov 2008, 23:09 --500 (Eastern Standard Time)
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