-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> Interesting concept, however looks as if the project was abandoned. > > It died due to lack of interest, mostly. Some IM protocols require > short message blocks; OpenPGP messages are usually quite long. Thus, > Gaim-E was never able to support as many protocols as Gaim/Pidgin itself > could. > > A different project, OTR, provides confidential instant messaging. I > have some minor quibbles with it, but all in all, OTR seems to be the > best thing going for IM confidentiality.
There is also a Plug-In for Pidgin called RSA Encryption that provides seamless IM Encryption as well. JOHN ;) Timestamp: Sunday 02 Nov 2008, 23:09 --500 (Eastern Standard Time) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10-svn4845: (MingW32) Comment: Public Key at: http://tinyurl.com/8cpho Comment: Gossamer Spider Web of Trust: https://www.gswot.org Comment: Homepage: http://tinyurl.com/yzhbhx iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJJDnmEAAoJEBCGy9eAtCsPi44IAI0G34gAc+2qheLPdkAdG0ay 8Bhg+ncfuJfZOp6JnnyXhd1bqamsFZl1A333zC41ncW47vZwpb1ETsF4sslxIyrp eOa61AIFPP2cWZoOshxfMNR5jb+OY0w5mtwdWBqXBMhHfR3x812dFltHesll19LZ EURXlvAU02NkNYoiP/hJRBQXk7Q/qCCmjBvoRLomkKHp3ttuBuJ9a0+/Zs5OE4+k EkOWIASmCMG8yfJ4ua4n+lLM0jJ2FHJ044yq/aXijMuPyfCKORE/AOcKaym42SSd I7KyI9kGzwiBK2QNjhVgPmtWUd+3rRELGNhgur7NdjLQASvIGF1Y48wSV+s1V+w= =LtVH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users