Re: Looking for a "secure" alternative to MSN.

["JGJones (Mailing List)" <mailinglist () gwallgofi com>]

This isn't relevant to the endpoint to endpoint communcation that
you're after but one thing I never liked about Pidgin was that it save
all your IM account passwords in cleartext in a configuration file the
last time I used it. Not sure if this have been changed by now.

On 20 January 2011 20:48, Chad Uretsky <curetsky () yahoo com> wrote:
> You can use MSN or Yahoo in a more secure capacity by employing an encryption
> tool such as SIMP from Secway
> (http://www.secway.fr/us/products/simplite_msn/home.php).  You just need to make
> sure the person on the other end is also using SIMP.
>
> Kind regards,
> Chad
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark <znxster () gmail com>
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Sent: Thu, January 20, 2011 11:27:09 AM
> Subject: Re: Looking for a "secure" alternative to MSN.
>
> On 30 December 2010 23:49, Lukas <lukas.ponten () gmail com> wrote:
> > So, I'm looking for an IM client with strong encryption. Ideally with
> > audio/video support, and open source.
> > Like Msn sort of.. Preferably not som addon to msn though. I know there is a
> > lot of those.
> > It's incredible I can't find this. I'd be amazed if there's no IM client
> > that is capable of encryption.
>
> Wikipedia has a pretty good list of information about the various
> clients/protocols and what they offer/support.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_instant_messaging_clients
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_instant_messaging_protocols
>
> Of course using public servers isn't going to be as secure as setting
> up your own:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_LAN_messengers
>
> At work we are using Microsoft Communicator (since rename to "Lync").
> Obviously not Open Source but:
> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/
>
> Thanks
> Mark
>
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