31 Dec
2000
31 Dec
'00
10:33 p.m.
-- At 10:17 PM 12/30/2000 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote:
Note that the two things IRC really needs, end to end encryption and authentication, are not even on the list of "improvements" these people are working on.
Is there a forum where it is appropriate to discuss such improvements? The average IRC user will never grok the concept of a public key, but we could have public key's on an IRC server, with the ordinary user using a SPEKE like password system to gain access to a secured channel and a secured identity. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG HpLONWYXEqbaFaw3bKJmjhbFeLzMkIrkLaH9CPYW 4z1W/NcDGlPFqVhKdMx79FgbH147U7C6akoj2OQGh