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1997-06-23 - Re: Party on IRC

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From: Kevin L Prigge <Kevin.L.Prigge-2@tc.umn.edu>
To: janke@unixg.ubc.ca
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UTC Datetime: 1997-06-23 21:59:14 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 05:59:14 +0800

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From: Kevin L Prigge <Kevin.L.Prigge-2@tc.umn.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 05:59:14 +0800
To: janke@unixg.ubc.ca
Subject: Re: Party on IRC
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Leonard Janke said:
> 
> ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/applications/circ.tar.gz ?
> 
> Didn't look into it too closely, but I noticed it doesn't do 
> authentication.
> 

Circ uses 3DES for encryption and does key exchange with RSA. 
It runs on top of irc, and encrypts/decrypts by running a program
in the backgound. There is also a standalone client.

I'm not sure that authentication is wanted or needed for irc. 
There have been a lot of problems with people grabbing a list 
of everyone on irc at a given time, then e-mailing them spam 
or vague threats. ircd 2.9.2 implements the +a mode for channels
which somehow disallows listing user information even if you are
on the channel with them.

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Kevin L. Prigge                     | "The only thing that saves us from
Systems Software Programmer         | the bureaucracy is it's
Enterprise Internet Services        | inefficiency." - Eugene McCarthy
University of Minnesota             |

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