> That's not what anybody means when speaking about encrypted messaging. Few people seems to know much. > Referring to client-server encryption as encrypted m

> That's not what anybody means when speaking about encrypted messaging. Few people seems to know much. > Referring to client-server encryption as encrypted messaging is misleading. > AIM, Facebook chat and Windows Live Messenger are all encrypted messengers by that definition. I can partly agree with you on that. But the way you phrase it, people who don't know better might easily be misled to think it is readable by anyone in between. There are a few options between cleartext over telnet and the latest in crypto.