I've ducked out of the IRC world mostly after the first couple years, but this looks like you could setup pgp/rsa.perl/something that would be interesting: *** Help on ENCRYPT Usage: ENCRYPT [<nickname>|<channel> [<key>]] ENCRYPT allows you to hold an encrypted conversations with a person or a whole channel. Once a nickname/channel and key is specified, all messages you send to that nickname/channel will automatically be encrypted using the given key. Likewise, any messages from that nickname/channel will automatically be decrypted. ircII is smart enough to know if the incoming message isn't encrypted and will not attempt to decrypt it. If you received an encrypted message from someone for whom you haven't specified a key, it will be displayed as [ENCRYPTED MESSAGE]. The <key> can be any text which is to be used an they key for encryption/decryption of the conversation. It is up to you and the people you wish to talk to about how to agree upon a key and how to communicate it to one another. For example, if user CheeseDog wishes to talk encryptedly with user DogCheese, they must first agree on an encryption key (case sensitive), say foo. Then user CheeseDog must issue a ENCRYPT DogCheese foo and user DogCheese must issue a ENCRYPT CheeseDog foo Thereafter, all messages sent between CheeseDog and DogCheese will be encrypted and decrypted automatically. If ENCRYPT is given with a nickname but no key, then encrypted conversation is ended with that user. If ENCRYPT is given with no arguments, the list of encrypted user and keys are displayed. IrcII uses a built in encryption method that isn't terribly secure. You can use another if you so choose, see SEE ENCRYPT_PROGRAM for information about this. If you are sending encrypted messages to a user or channel, you can toggle it off and on in a message line by inserting the control-E character in the input line. This is usually done by hitting control-Q then control-E. An inverse video E will appear in the input line. Note: Control-q is bound (see BIND) to quote_character by default. It is frequently necessary to change this to some other char. See Also: SET ENCRYPT_PROGRAM *** You have new email. *** No help available on encrypt_program: Use ? for list of topics *** Help on ENCRYPT_PROGRAM Usage: SET ENCRYPT_PROGRAM <encryption program path> Sets the program used to encrypt and decrypt messages. The program selected must take an encryption key as the first command line argument to work with IRCII. sdw -- Stephen D. Williams 25Feb1965 VW,OH (FBI ID) sdw@lig.net http://www.lig.net/sdw Consultant, Vienna,VA Mar95- 703-918-1491W 43392 Wayside Cir.,Ashburn, VA 22011 OO/Unix/Comm/NN ICBM/GPS: 39 02 37N, 77 29 16W home, 38 54 04N, 77 15 56W Pres.: Concinnous Consulting,Inc.;SDW Systems;Local Internet Gateway Co.;28May95