On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:47 AM, kevin gill <[email protected]> wrote:
> > My own experiences of OTR (over a few years) are that it is great when > > it works, but a royal pain in the ass when it breaks. Since it layers > > on top of other protocols, it's easy to get into a situation where the > > peer you're talking to is receiving junk, and the two of you are > > unable to communicate. It is inherently difficult to tell when this is > > happening. > > > > SILC is another alternative, but the clients for it universally suck. > > The most reliable 'secure IRC' I've seen is literally just running IRC > > over SSL, which modern ircds support, and nearly all > > modern/usable/desirable clients also support. > > > > SSL IRC is also very easy to set up. > > > > My problem is not to avoid intercepts, but to avoid a record. I was kind > of looking for some sort of web-based product where we could delete the > transcript after. I simply want to avoid comments ending up on a public > record at some point in the future. > > I don't know anything about IRC. I just worry that when I visit #zope or > similar it all ends up on google. > I trust you know this is impossible? With any sort of protocol, if the client can decode it, they can store it - the only way around this would be to have a secret protocol, with a proprietary, closed-source client, and rely on the obfuscation to make it harder for someone to figure out how to extract the text. > Kevin > > > > > > David > > > > On 11 March 2010 17:53, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I used to live in Addis. You have to try Castelli's Italian restaurant > >> while you are over there. > >> > >> Regarding IRC etc. There is a plugin for Pidgin called Off the record > >> or OTC http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ . > >> > >> J > >> > >> On Mar 11, 5:46 pm, "kevin gill" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> OT > >>> > >>> I am in Ethiopia a the moment. Yesterday, I was introduced to the girl > >>> Rohama, who assuming that the bureaucratic processes move smoothly, > >>> will > >>> be my daughter in a month or two. > >>> > >>> Very OT > >>> > >>> Does anyone know of a secure alternative to IRC. Specifically, what I > >>> am > >>> interested in is that the transcript is not kept. In IRC channels that > >>> I > >>> participated in in the past, the transcript is online etc. I don't want > >>> to > >>> control access. I want to avoid google knowing what I said in 20 years. > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> > >>> Kevin > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> Groups "Python Ireland" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<pythonireland%[email protected]> > . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/pythonireland?hl=en. > >> > >> > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Python Ireland" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<pythonireland%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/pythonireland?hl=en. > > > > > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Python Ireland" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<pythonireland%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/pythonireland?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pythonireland?hl=en.
