[talk] Encrypted Chat Applications (aka not Signal)

[Raul Cuza]

Anyone know how many (if any) of ike's criteria does Keybase.io meet?
I have not done any work on this. If you have, I am curious what you
found.

Raúl

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 4:04 PM John C. Vernaleo <john at netpurgatory.com> wrote:
>
> I haven't touched it in a few years, but zkc was an interesting attempt at
> an encrypted and zero knowledge irc like system.  ISC license, and good
> stuff like that.  We were using it in production while we were working on
> it but not sure of that status today or if it hits all your points, but
> might be worth taking a look at.
>
> https://github.com/companyzero/zkc
>
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> On Wed, 12 Feb 2020, Isaac (.ike) Levy wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I wanted to ask if folks have any preferred end to end encryption communications software they like, for chat/txt type messaging?  Quite specifically:
> >
> > I'm looking for:
> > - Stuff which relies on user-created encryption keys (pgp/gpg or otherwise)
> >  - optionally, has a distributed trust validation model built in (gpg signing use would do it)
> > - Stuff which relies on generalized network/messaging infrastructure
> >  - Anyone remember gpg plug ins for irc clients way back when?
> >  - Remember when gpg over xmpp got hot?
> >
> > I am *not* looking for:
> > - Anything which replaces distributed trust (gpg and human validation), with cenralized authority (Signal, iMessage, ssl/tls/CA based models-)
> > - Maybe apps can run on popular mobile platforms (iOS, Android)
> > - Maybe apps which can run on desktop (Pidgn?  Does it have these features?)
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Best,
> > .ike
> >
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