Re: Secure IM - in a nutshell

2011-01-27 Thread Mark Doliner
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:57 PM, ANDY wrote: > So if I understand the help/faq correctly, in a nutshell - none of the major > IMs (Yahoo, MSN, Facebook) use SSL security other than to authenticate the > session at best? I think that's more accurate that not. I think logins for AIM, Facebook, Go

Re: Secure IM - in a nutshell

2011-01-27 Thread Brian Morrison
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:57:37 -0700 ANDY wrote: > Aside from some great effort that casual/novice users are unlike to > make, things such as SILC is the only option? OTR is another possibility, it offers plausible deniability. http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ offers more information, if you're usi

Secure IM - in a nutshell

2011-01-26 Thread ANDY
So if I understand the help/faq correctly, in a nutshell - none of the major IMs (Yahoo, MSN, Facebook) use SSL security other than to authenticate the session at best? Aside from some great effort that casual/novice users are unlike to make, things such as SILC is the only option? [The republica