Talk:AIM

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The jabber equivilent to "secure chat" (end-end encrytion and groupchat message signing) uses GPG instead of certificates.

Okay, I think this means: "another way to enable secure chat is to run Jabber and log into AIM. Then, using Jabber clients that allow encrypted connections, the free and open Gnu Privacy Guard is available.

Unfortunately, I think Jabber only supports SSL which is quite different from GPG. Can you clarify and then develop the text a little? Webfork

This AIM encryption makes me nervous. Verisign muddies the waters about what service they provide, and aimencrypt.com is worse. Both have the effect of making users confident for the wrong reasons, blurring the lines between the truly secure systems and those that are cosmetically similar without the security. I just sent the following email to aimencrypt, just in case: http://web.mit.edu/bergey/www/aimencrypt.com-letter

Not quite. SO LONG AS THE INDIVIDUAL CHOOSES A PASSWORD and doesn't just hit "enter" when prompted for one as the Aimencrypt web site suggests, the Private Key is modified and unique. I can provide an excersize to demonstrate this fact concerning Public-Key Cryptosystems if you need. Despite this, it is entirely possible for Big Brother to have already generated nearly every possible key (up to several million variations) based on Aimencrypt.com's key.

Please publish if they talk back to you.

Aimencrypt isn't a great idea, I just don't trust other Chat Client's encryption either. It will keep people my neighbors from listening in on my conversations while on a wireless network so that's good enough for me. Webfork