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re: "Gale", a secure, distributed, open-source chat system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (matthew green)
Wed Jan 19 14:08:17 2000
To: Ryan Lackey <ryan@venona.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@algebra.com, cryptography@c2.net
in-reply-to: your message of "Tue, 18 Jan 2000 20:20:24 -0800."
<20000118202024.D11875@leopard.venona.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 05:31:42 +1100
Message-ID: <25177.948306702@eterna.com.au>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
this looks very interesting. however, the review contains one error.
while IRC itself doesn't include built-in encryption, people have been
chatting via encrypted messages over IRC for, i'd guess, 10 years.
ircII has included a CAST-128 implementation or about 18 months now
and has almost always included support for an extrnal program to
provide encryption/decryption. i know of at least one windows client
that also supports the CAST-128 cipher.
but IRC should die a horrible death and hopefuly gale can do this. :-)
