secure IRC/messaging successor

[Bill Stewart]

At 06:41 PM 08/30/2001 +0200, Eugene Leitl wrote:
>Gale http://www.gale.org/ seems a well thought out infrastructure. Is the
>consensus "this is it", or have I missed any alternatives?

Jabber seems to be emerging as the main cross-ISP instant messaging platform.
I'm not sure how much security it offers, but I've heard that
somebody's doing something along those lines.