[ Thanks to Pekka
Riikonen for this announcement: ]
New Open Source project called Secure Internet Live Conferencing
(SILC) has been started. Initial development version of the
software is available for testing.
SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which
provides secure conferencing services in the Internet over insecure
channel. SILC is IRC like software although internally they are
very different. Biggest similiarity between SILC and IRC is that
they both provide conferencing services and that SILC has almost
same commands as IRC. Other than that they are nothing alike.
Biggest differences are that SILC is secure what IRC is not in any
way. The network model is also entirely different compared to
IRC.
SILC is an open source (or freeware) project and it has been
released under the GNU General Public Licence. The SILC is free to
use and everyone is free to distribute and change the SILC under
the terms of the GNU GPL. While there is no guarantee for the
product SILC has been tried make as secure as possible. Developers
are needed and everyone is free to contribute their time, skills
and ideas for the project.
Official SILC Project home page: http://silc.pspt.fi
SILC Development Version is available for download from
following addresses:
HTTP: silc-28062000.tar.gz
(1.1 MB)
FTP: silc-28062000.tar.gz
(1.1 MB)
The SILC protocol specification is available from following
addresses:
HTTP: http://silc.pspt.fi/docs.html
FTP: ftp://silc.pspt.fi/pub/silc/
Author’s contact information:
Pekka Riikonen priikone@poseidon.pspt.fi
Home page: http://poseidon.pspt.fi/~priikone/english/