On 14/01/18 20:24, Dave McMahon wrote:
I'm sort of an amateur to IRC, I used to use AIM for OTR messaging. I was wondering if messages between myself and another user are private through Pidgin are private. IE, if I message another user directly, can our conversation be seen by a third party in some channel or is our conversation strictly between us? This is not an issue of security, we simply prefer to know that we can't be "overheard".
With the exception of Bonjour (which cannot be used on the internet), all messages go through a server that is outside the control of Pidgin. Any end to end encryption will be a function of the protocol used, and the third party server. I don't believe that IRC intrinsically provides end to end encryptions, but there may be plugins that impose end to end encryption on top of the actual IRC communication.
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