RE: Secure Instant Messenger for Windows?

From: CORREIA, PATRICK <pcorreia(at)cha-llp.com>
Date: Mon Feb 10 2003 - 13:34:39 EST

You might want to check out Jabber (http://www.jabber.org/), an open-source protocol for real-time messaging and presence. I haven't had any personal experience with it, but it seems to meet your requirements well. The price is right, and since it's open-source you should be able to customize it to meet your needs. In terms of security, Jabber.org makes the following claims (from http://www.jabber.org/about/overview.html):

"Any Jabber server may be isolated from the public Jabber network, many server implementations use SSL for client-server communications, and numerous clients support PGP/GPG for end-to-end encryption; more robust security using SASL and session keys is under development."

Maybe someone who has implemented Jabber in a corporate environment can contribute some insight?

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Patrick Correia, Web Designer
Clough, Harbour & Associates LLP
http://www.cha-llp.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Adkins [mailto:omnicron@buckeye-express.com] Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 7:46 PM
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: Secure Instant Messenger for Windows? Received on Mon Feb 10 16:56:49 2003