Anyone know what became of the Gaim-E Project?

John W. Moore III jmoore3rd at bellsouth.net
Mon Nov 3 05:09:42 CET 2008


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Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> 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.

There is also a Plug-In for Pidgin called RSA Encryption that provides
seamless IM Encryption as well.

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Sunday 02 Nov 2008, 23:09  --500 (Eastern Standard Time)
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