[JDEV] Bantu?

[Peter Saint-Andre]

I think they're centralized, but they do seem to offer either hosted
solutions or local servers. They also power that wonderful teen site
KiwiBox.com... ;)

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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On 25 Sep 2001, temas wrote:

> They are proprietary, I thought they were centralized too, but I could
> be wrong there.  As for a patent pending on msg encryption, I have to
> give them a big "yeah right".  If a patent is awarded in that area (even
> if it is a new algorithm), then it'll be highly contested.  Encrypting
> XML isn't exactly something new and fresh, encrypting any other data is
> definately nothing new.
> 
> --temas
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2001-09-25 at 16:54, Ragavan S wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I was wondering if any of you had any experience with Bantu(www.bantu.com). 
> > I just heard about it from a friend of mine and checked out the website. 
> > Wasn't able to gather much information, except for their claims to be 
> > 'interoperable', 'secure', 'business-grade'. There isn't much description of 
> > the actual protocol (which smells strongly of a proprietary solution), but 
> > they seem to basing it on a set of XML APIs.
> > 
> > If anybody has any more info (maybe even a comparison with Jabber), that 
> > would be great.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Ragavan
> > 
> > PS: They claim to have patent-pending message encryption. Intriguing to the 
> > security guy in me....
> > 
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