Subj : Multi-Relay Chat (MRC) Goes Secure
To   : All
From : warmfuzzy
Date : Wed Mar 22 2023 22:00:06

There has been a lot of drama in the MRC scene as of late.  People have been having serious conversations as to how MRC should go down the line... whether chat rooms are to be considered secure or totally open.  Anyhow, MeaTLoTioN has implemented a new cryptographic scheme into MRC so that PrivMsgs can be thought of as at least marginally more secure than what it was before.  MeaTLoTioN has the programming skill to make secure messaging a thing.  He is the person with the skills and connections to the MRC Dev people so that he can actually make this thing happen.  Check back at the new time for the weekly meetup at 7pm Eastern Time and ask around to see what's going on.  Actually even better than the Friday night meetup would be the Matrix/Element server at https://elements.erb.pw.  I could be wrong with the address, it might be element.erb.pw, but one of those two will work.  As with anything to do with cryptography I'd advise that you look at the code before putting your full trust in it, but at the very least this will stop the trolls who do dragnet collection of all MRC traffic, and literally that is what has been happening, some times people would be talking in the /msg [username] [content] format and PrivMsgs were sent, but then the person who was being talked about then confronts people with exactly what was being said in "private."  PrivMsgs is NOT private.  I'd be willing to receive the code to MRC into a message on Sp00knet so we can all look it over.

Cheers!
-warmfuzzy

P.S. I should also mention that mrcX is implementing some pseudo-cryptography in the new MRC client called mrcX.  It is not what I'm talking of here.  mrcX is using pseudo crypto (in simple terms very simple crytpo) that will have your chat safe from big brother but not big government.

Props to ML for his leet code
-wf

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