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1 .SH darkfi
2 The Mallumo Weechat Plugin
3 .2C 10v
4 .
5 .PP
6 IRC is part of the protocols that survived to the advent of the Web.
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8 .PP
9 It still has users, it still has new network and communities initiatives springing out, it is alive.
10 .
11 .PP
12 One single little touch it lacks is end-to-end encryption.
13 Without it it is perfect for public communities such as software projects discussions and support chat, live event chats...
14 but private 1-to-1 communication could suddenly become a good candidate for end-to-end encryption.
15 .
16 .PP
17 Part of the DarkFi project, this is what Mallumo
18 .FS
19 https://github.com/darkrenaissance/mallumo
20 .FE
21 brings in a simple piece of code using libNaClk,
22 the crypto library from Dan Bernstein,
23 author of ED25519 (in its repackaged libsodium form).
24 This is state-of-the-art, well-proven and fast cryptography for end-to-end communication.
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26 .PP
27 With this plug-in dropped in the plugin folder,
28 all private communication start by a simple key exchange over normal IRC,
29 and the conversation upgrades to nacl-encrypted messages over regular IRC.
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31 .PP
32 There might not be any simpler way to encrypt peer-to-peer communication online.