From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Md3df-00057C-GW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:56:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C942E03A8; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:56:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f181.google.com (mail-pz0-f181.google.com [209.85.222.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403B5E03A8 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:56:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk11 with SMTP id 11so3139582pzk.10 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:56:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=wfQL6QwKTeqn5jTKEvjTg0eFbJi7VJqq+frIfFBRzB0=; b=qGsvFNCM1LSzMxWFYb5TIr8x/dF6aN+8EwBRqRRXuDcCqNWam3MyOSzHOfbR00ziCF wwrIVAb90yEZDjJYA9OQtNjSLnV/0Ee5fl6JTG8Zqi+QVI2Dr8G+rjgChL+PXI2KycfH hMPvQ+XswWY5jQUWdWiSidGZ+Ii6musKschU4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=xJPIer1Nj/BpqmcvqgkRJ3GSVGMvE4mDpE5drsEtSHbtexoWeUnmqrORTnvXqIAAFJ HVprodTHLFue+VpB0UD13UgfndS9UNmuokIrc9+b03Zt/ba95W+/zlLNPmBsYjgwBeOD yM4yrQuuptMDc5sYT6Nv+B9VRCStDifbNRrCY= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.7.11 with SMTP id 11mr895125wfg.140.1250521005783; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:56:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A88C752.2050003@gmail.com> References: <9c74dfeb0908161919t4703bfb5u42bfb799da58f11@mail.gmail.com> <4A88C752.2050003@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:56:45 +0200 Message-ID: <9c74dfeb0908170756o75e10a39q3f6956eb4bba577d@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Network message encryption From: Xianwen Chen To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 034e1793-af9e-40ad-8e1e-6aca5c138dca X-Archives-Hash: d8af62ca1ec6993feea84a3d9fdc50d1 Hi Saphirus, On 8/17/09, Saphirus Sage 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 -- Xianwen Chen Mobile: +86 13774 228909 Email: cxi000@post.uit.no; xianwen.chen@gmail.com