Re: secure IRC/messaging successor
gale has scaling problems to large numbers of users, in particular
for group messaging.
-derek
Eugene Leitl
Gale http://www.gale.org/ seems a well thought out infrastructure. Is the consensus "this is it", or have I missed any alternatives?
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gale has scaling problems to large numbers of users, in particular for group messaging.
What doesn't? :) Gale seems to have a better security story, but Jabber certainly has the momentum and large force behind it. <irony>Plus, it's XML so you *know* it's good.</irony> /r$ -- Zolera Systems, Your Key to Online Integrity Securing Web services: XML, SOAP, Dig-sig, Encryption http://www.zolera.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@wasabisystems.com
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Rich Salz wrote:
Gale seems to have a better security story, but Jabber certainly has the momentum and large force behind it.
How does SILC http://www.silcnet.org/ fit the bill? -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO : N48 10'07'' E011 33'53'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@wasabisystems.com
How does SILC http://www.silcnet.org/ fit the bill?
For what it's worth, *I* don't know enough about it to have an opinion. I'd be curious what others think. /r$ -- Zolera Systems, Securing web services (XML, SOAP, Signatures, Encryption) http://www.zolera.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@wasabisystems.com
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