> I've been looking for a secure alternative to IRC. Looking through this: Have you looked at Matrix[1]? It's federated, also has multiparty OTR-like encryptio

> I've been looking for a secure alternative to IRC. Looking through this: Have you looked at Matrix[1]? It's federated, also has multiparty OTR-like encryption, supports multiple devices for each user (with granular trust). And they have many different clients. It also synchronises your chat history. > Is there a way to turn off forward secrecy? For many uses cases you don't want it. I guess you can always add a way after the fact (e.g. by including previous key in each new message) I believe that you'd always want forward secrecy for any transmitted information. However, you could do what Signal does by storing all of your messages with a single encryption key (so you don't store all of the historic keys, which would be bad). [1]: https://matrix.org/ https://matrix.org/