At 03:31 PM 6/21/97 -0400, Nelson Minar wrote:
I don't know any more what mailing lists I should use. Coderpunks? Cryptography? Cypherpunks? DCSB?
I'd posted my mail to cypherpunks and cryptography, so I'm forwarding yours there.
It already exists. IRC includes the "DCC" protocol - direct client to client communication. It's mostly for exchange of files (read: pornography), but you can also use it for chat or, even better, encrypted chat. It's like a /msg except that the servers are never involved, it's directly between two clients.
The DCC stuff isn't very standardized, so I don't know how interoperable it all is. I believe that IRCII, the Unix client, has something in it along the lines of DES with secret keys.
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