James Brigman wrote:
Joel - your article reference is excellent. The resulting thread mentions one important item that I'd forgotten about: encryption! GAIM has an encryption module:
http://gaim-encryption.sourceforge.net/
Speaking of encryption, the Jabber standard (and now the jabberd1.4 server) supports SSL for all Client to Server and Server to Server connections. For most people, for most conversations, that's going to be quite sufficient. If you're truly paranoid (and usually that's a good thing), quite a few of the clients, including my personal favorite Psi, support PGP encrypted messages. If you are speaking with a user of an appropriately-intelligent client, all of your messages can be sent encrypted with your and the recipient's PGP public keys, and can be stored that way on disk in the history, etc. This nicely leverages the existing infrastructure of PGP for high-security encryption, and the web of trust for authentication. Seems like the perfect blend of technologies to me. :)
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