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No end to end encryption? It should be default at least for private messages.
by intricatedetail 5y ago
No end to end encryption? It should be default at least for private messages.
- johnisgood 5y agoYeah. Welp, you can still use OTR.
- progval 5y agoOTR <https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/> is the de-facto standard for encryption on IRC. It's also quite old, so it predates IRCv3.
- raspyberr 5y agoWhat's the point of E2E in a public chatroom? If there's no restriction to enter anyone could just put a bot in that logs everything everyone says.
- intricatedetail 5y agoYou can have password protected rooms or host service on an untrusted platform. In a corporate environment lack of e2ee is a deal breaker.
- ViViDboarder 5y ago> In a corporate environment lack of e2ee is a deal breaker Not in my experience. I would want a new hire to be able to search past history for context and to many businesses like to monitor the chats. Keep in mind, IRC would generally be hosted by the business themselves so they’d have full access to the data. Why would that business want to hide their employees messages from themselves?
- intricatedetail 5y agoIt is rare these days that company actually has their own physical server room and "cloud" by default is not secure - you have to rely on cloud company security and integrity. I am thinking of that kind of scenario, however if you control who can access the servers then it may not be necessary.
- ViViDboarder 5y agoEven still, e2ee isn’t desirable in the industry. See Slack and Teams, the most popular IRC replacements used in the corporate world. Neither are e2ee.