Re: [gentoo-user] Network message encryption

[Xianwen Chen <xianwen.chen@gmail.com>]

Hi Saphirus,

On 8/17/09, Saphirus Sage <saphirus497@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, for instant messengers, most do support some form of encryption,
> such that Empathy, Pidgin or any other client which can handle MSN must
> use encryption, as everything is sent over SSL. But, in general, I would
> suggest Pidgin, as via a plugin, it can be used in combination with OTR
> (Off-The-Record) which uses public-key encryption between clients, and
> ontop of that, there's even a plugin for pidgin which uses RSA instead,
> which I've found to be buggy, but is certainly a bit stronger in the
> cryptographic sense.
>
>

Thanks very much for the information. I'm emerged pidgin-otr, and it
works well! I didn't go for the RSA plugin, since it was buggy, and
OTR is enough for me.

Best regards,

Wen

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