[1058] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Party on IRC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John A. Perry)
Mon Jun 23 11:49:05 1997
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 05:36:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: "John A. Perry" <perry@alpha.jpunix.com>
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
cc: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>, cypherpunks@algebra.com,
cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970621023432.0077a4ac@popd.ix.netcom.com>
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Bill Stewart wrote:
> >Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> writes:
> >>Is there an encrypted IRC available?
> >>If not, shouldn't there be?
> >>Is such a thing even possible?
>
> You'd have to think about what you wanted it to do,
> but it should be quite doable. IRC is normally for sharing
> conversations between an amorphous, changing bunch of people,
> which isn't really a standard thing to do with crypto.
Actually a simple form of encryption is available. There is a plug-in to
eggdrop called wire. I have used it in my eggdrop bot on #remailop and it
has worked well. Basically you log into the bot with a /dcc chat and then
execute .wire <key> where <key> is a mutually agreed upon key. Then to
send encrypted chats to others that have connected with the same key, each
line that you type needs to be preceded with a ";". I'll fire it up if you
want to look at it. Go to any EFnet server, check in and then go to
channel #remailop. Say hello to rops and then check in. I believe it uses
the crypt(3) function for encryption.
John Perry KG5RG perry@alpha.jpunix.com PGP-encrypted e-mail welcome!
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