Re: Secure Instant Messaging

[David Honig]

At 05:39 PM 5/10/01 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>Would someone PLEASE just write a simple strong symmetric (AES?) key crypto 
>plugin for AIM and/or ICQ? 
>
>How hard can it be to just copy out the text, encrypt it to a preentered 
>key, encrypt it and paste it back into the window when the user hits the 
>send button?  Christ.

Playing devil's advocate, if you want to do this, use MSWindows clipboard
and a PGP plug in.  Use symmetric encryption if you've shared a phrase, or 
use PK if you don't care.  Copy, encrypt, paste.  

But yeah, crypto tools should strive for luser transparency.