Anyone know what became of the Gaim-E Project?

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 04:49:57 CET 2008


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Robert J. Hansen escribió:
>> Interesting concept, however looks as if the project was abandoned.
> 
> It died due to lack of interest, mostly.  Some IM protocols require
> short message blocks; OpenPGP messages are usually quite long.  Thus,
> Gaim-E was never able to support as many protocols as Gaim/Pidgin itself
> could.
> 
> A different project, OTR, provides confidential instant messaging.  I
> have some minor quibbles with it, but all in all, OTR seems to be the
> best thing going for IM confidentiality.

  Also, there is a plugin named Pidgin-Encryption
http://pidgin-encrypt.sourceforge.net/

  I don't know which one is better, but at least, there are things to
provide encryption...

  Best Regards
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