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