Instant messaging client with GnuPG support ?

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Wed Jan 8 00:58:02 2003


On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 06:49:30PM -0500, Todd wrote:

> Toxik - Fabian Rodriguez wrote:
> > I'd like to know if there are any open source IM clients supporting
> > OpenPGP via GnuPG or else, for Windows ?
> 
> I don't use IM much, but I did spend some time recently trying to find a
> suitable IM program with OpenPGP support.  I'd consider using IM if there
> were good end-to-end crypto support.
> 
> There's a plugin for gaim (which does jabber and other protocols):
> 
>     http://gaim-e.sourceforge.net/
> 
> There's also gabber, which I'm told is a nice jabber client.  Unfortunately
> the gpg support only works for 1.0.6 or older. :(

This was a bug in GnuPG.  It only applies to 1.0.7.  1.2.0 and later
should work properly with Gabber.

David

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