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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:58
Black Unicorn (unicorn@schloss.li)
Tue, 18 Aug 1998 21:01:29 -0500
At 04:46 PM 8/18/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I'd love to see this idea (whose time has come, really) come to frutation.
>If we could make a distributed and secure alternative to IRC, I'm sure it'd
>be widely-used.
Why re-invent the wheel?
Why not piggy-back off the existing (and substantial) IRC network? If the
crypto is end to end then what's it matter what network you're on? Might
as well leverage existing systems. IRC could be made more secure, and its
authentication problems could finally be solved if only we had a decent
client to use.
Of course, something along the lines of ICQ using TCP/IP and
encrypted/authenticated would make me salivate just as much, but it strikes
me that you're much more likely to get participants if you work off the IRC
network.
Hint: If you REALLY want it to work and gather thousands of users in about
a weeks time, make sure that IRC style DCC file transfers (encrypted of
course) are easy to arrange.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:58