Hi, what's the best way to secure IM-like communication? One way I could think of is using ssh and then talk (or some equivalent), another idea was to run an irc server like ircd-hybrid and use ssl.
But I don't exactly want to have other users log in via ssh (letting aside that there's no usable windoze client for that, and cygwin is too large to be downloaded with a modem connection), and ircd-hybrid in testing seems to be compiled without ssl support. I could compile my own ircd-hybrid, but I'm not sure if ssl support is supposed to be used by IRC clients. It seems more targeted to secure connections between IRC servers. And then, ssl is only so much secure ... Maybe ssh could be used to tunnel IRC, but that appears to be at least troublesome on the client side. What's the way to go? GH -- Life is hard; and then you die. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
