[KLUG Members] ICQ - was: Is this the end of Netscape?

[Robert G. Brown]

On 31 May 2003 16:47:11 -0400, Bruce Smith <bruce@armintl.com> wrote:

>What method of encryption does LICQ use?  Is it a private/public key
>thing like GPG/PGP?  If not, how does it work exchanging keys?
It's peer-to-peer SSL, really all I know..

>> e-mail is not as secure,
>Email doesn't have to be insecure....
No, it doesn't have to be, but it's not easy to get a population (on a number
of different platforms) to move to a secure e-mail environment. One of the nice
things about using lightweight tools like IM for lightweight (but critical) 
activities like exchange of a few bytes is that no one sees it as a big deal.

>...  I setup Evolution with GPG recently
>for the first time.  Very slick!  I've also heard good things about
>other email clients that support GPG out of the box like Evolution.

>Fairly simple to setup.  VERY simple to use.  And VERY SECURE.
And much more recent than the choice of using ICQ the way it was discussed.
The real point about e-mail is that it's perceived as less casual, less 
"electric" than IM.

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