On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Bill Stewart wrote:
Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> writes:
Is there an encrypted IRC available? If not, shouldn't there be? Is such a thing even possible?
You'd have to think about what you wanted it to do, but it should be quite doable. IRC is normally for sharing conversations between an amorphous, changing bunch of people, which isn't really a standard thing to do with crypto.
Actually a simple form of encryption is available. There is a plug-in to eggdrop called wire. I have used it in my eggdrop bot on #remailop and it has worked well. Basically you log into the bot with a /dcc chat and then execute .wire <key> where <key> is a mutually agreed upon key. Then to send encrypted chats to others that have connected with the same key, each line that you type needs to be preceded with a ";". I'll fire it up if you want to look at it. Go to any EFnet server, check in and then go to channel #remailop. Say hello to rops and then check in. I believe it uses the crypt(3) function for encryption. John Perry KG5RG perry@alpha.jpunix.com PGP-encrypted e-mail welcome! Amateur Radio Address: kg5rg@kg5rg.ampr.org WWW - http://www.jpunix.com PGP 2.62 key for perry@jpunix.com is on the keyservers.