RE: [Announce] Secure Chat Network Protocol

["Lucky Green" <shamrock@netcom.com>]

I seem to recall reading about an existing 3DES encrypting IRC client a
while back. Sorry, I don't have any pointers.

--Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
  PGP 5.x  encrypted email preferred

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-coderpunks@toad.com [mailto:owner-coderpunks@toad.com]On
> Behalf Of bram
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 20:55
> To: Coda Hale
> Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com; coderpunks@toad.com
> Subject: Re: [Announce] Secure Chat Network Protocol
>
>
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Coda Hale wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've just uploaded a white paper describing a possible v1.0 Secure
> > Chat Network Protocol (SCNP) to my homepage. You can check it out
> > here:
> >
> > http://www.indiesoft.com/scnp/
>
> I'd say you're being a bit too ambitious. Prior (failed)
> attempts at doing
> that sort of thing have shown that one should begin, as they
> say, at the
> beginning. The much more humble but much more doable goal of
> creating an
> encrypted form of DCC which was effective against passive
> eavesdropping
> would do a lot to increase the amount of encrypted cover for
> chat things
> and be a lot more secure than the options today.
>
> DCC chat, by the way, is bootstrapped in a way which is
> pretty good from a
> security standpoint - IRC and a nick act as a giant
> anonymizing system.
>
> -Bram
>
>