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Encrypt your IM Conversations in Pidgin

Pidgin is IM (chat) client that supports multiple IM protocols including Gtalk, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ and many more. It also allows you to encrypt your IM conversations with the help of a plugin - "Pidgin-Encryption".

After installing the plugin just enable it by going to Tools > Plguins. Now your Pidgin is ready to secure your IM chat sessions. The plugin is available for various operating systems.

Features:
  • Automatically creates a public/private key pair for you upon loading the plugin
  • Automatically transmits your public key to other users.
  • Supports 512 - 4096 bit keys.
  • Saves keys of known users, and warns you if their public key has changed.
  • Embeds all encryption and keys inside HTML, so if the other user doesn't have the plugin, they will get a little message telling them about the plugin, and won't get a screen full of garbage.
  • Stores keys in human readable files in your .gaim/.pidgin directory, in case you ever need to copy/edit them by hand. Which you really shouldn't have to do.
  • Automatically recognizes if you are chatting with someone who has the plugin- see the Preferences dialog.
  • Available for the Windows version of Pidgin.
  • Modular and extensible. If you want to define a different type of encryption, you can use this plugin as a wrapper to take care of transporting the encrypted binary over the IM pipe.
Download the plug-in from Pidgin-Encryption
Happy Chatting :)

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