AIM Encryption?

JanuszA.Urbanowicz JanuszA.Urbanowicz
Tue Mar 26 17:33:02 2002


Case, Cory wrote/napisa=B3[a]/schrieb:
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> All,
>=20
> Is it possible to use gpg to encrypt AOL Instant Messenger communications?
> We're interested in using AIM in our corporate environment, but are very
> concerned about the lack of encryption of these messages as they travel o=
ver
> the internet to AOL & back.
>=20
> Alternatively, is there another product available that would offer the bu=
ddy
> list & chat features of AIM, in a secure message transport?  We're less
> interested in the ftp, chat room, and other AIM features.  It's the IM
> portion that is of most interest to us.

Jabber with Gabber client. Jabber is an open IM (see http://jabber.com and
http://jabber.org) and some clients, partucularly Gabber (for GNOME) and
at least one windows client support PGP encryption (Gabber uses GnuPG).

Alex
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