[82334] in Cypherpunks
Re: Party on IRC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin L Prigge)
Mon Jun 23 18:34:33 1997
From: Kevin L Prigge <Kevin.L.Prigge-2@tc.umn.edu>
To: janke@unixg.ubc.ca
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 16:48:34 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <m2vi38ozit.fsf@clouds.heaven.org> from Leonard Janke at "Jun 21, 97 06:29:14 am"
Reply-To: Kevin L Prigge <Kevin.L.Prigge-2@tc.umn.edu>
Leonard Janke said:
>
> ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/applications/circ.tar.gz ?
>
> Didn't look into it too closely, but I noticed it doesn't do
> authentication.
>
Circ uses 3DES for encryption and does key exchange with RSA.
It runs on top of irc, and encrypts/decrypts by running a program
in the backgound. There is also a standalone client.
I'm not sure that authentication is wanted or needed for irc.
There have been a lot of problems with people grabbing a list
of everyone on irc at a given time, then e-mailing them spam
or vague threats. ircd 2.9.2 implements the +a mode for channels
which somehow disallows listing user information even if you are
on the channel with them.
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