Anarchy Eroded: Project Efnext

[Riad S. Wahby]

David Honig <honig at sprynet.com> wrote:
> Since no one has yet mentioned it, Ryan Lackey once mentioned a 
> secure chat program.. Zephyr? Gale? (the name was related to some
> other existing, insecure chat program)

MIT uses Zephyr for text messaging.  It's not secure, but it can
authenticate with Kerberos.  

There are "homebrew" extensions to have encrypted sessions; basically,
since zephyr is 8-bit safe, you can put whatever you want inside the
message, including (non-armored) encrypted data.

--
Riad Wahby
rsw at mit.edu
MIT VI-2/A 2002

5105