[JDEV] Secure instant messaging.

[Julian Missig]

Gabber 0.8.1 and above support GPG.
I don't believe a version of WinJab with PGP support has been released.
Jarl CVS supports GPG, but I do not believe a version with that has been
released.

Julian


On 03 Feb 2001 10:27:36 -0800, Jai Singh wrote:
> I believe KIM (another Jabber client) has pgp encryption in it also..
> http://www.kunani.com/kim/
> 
> --Jai
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org]On Behalf Of
> Ted Rolle
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 1:18 PM
> To: 'jdev at jabber.org'
> Subject: RE: [JDEV] Secure instant messaging.
> 
> 
> How do we get to it in WinJab and Gabber?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Millard [mailto:me at pgmillard.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 13:01
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: Re: [JDEV] Secure instant messaging.
> 
> 
> James -
> 
> Have you checked out:
> 
> http://docs.jabber.org/draft-proto/html/pki.html
> 
> It details a "draft" spec that allows clients to use existing PGP/GPG
> architechture and plugins to achieve msg crypto.
> 
> Instead of saving the keys on a central key server, wouldn't it be better to
> allow clients to request the keys directly from each other if they don't
> already have them?? This stuff has already been implemented into Gabber and
> Winjab and seems to be wroking pretty good.
> 
> By signing the presence, you can extract the KeyID from the signature, and
> check to see if that public key already exists in the client's existing
> key-ring. If it doesn't (and I know this opens up some worms) but the
> clients could possibly just swap keys with each other using iq/get/results.
> Then you'd just using existing PGP/GPG technology.
> 
> Peter.
> 
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