Re: End-to-end encrypted Talk server

In article <m8p4tsFkcqkU1@mid.individual.net>,
Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:

In article <1007lps$b3f$1@reader1.panix.com>,
Dan Cross <cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:

In article <100645r$25oq$15@gallifrey.nk.ca>,
The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:

Just wondering if  FreeBSD Can do  end-to-end encrypted talk as a server.

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By "talk" do you mean `talk(1)` etc?  If so, then the answer is
no, unfortunately.  I don't believe that `talk` or `ntalk` was
ever a protocol that supported encryption.  Of course, it is
possible that someone created a local variant at some site that
did, but if so, it was not widespread.

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Maybe you could dummy up something with stunnel.

Perhaps?

I think "talk" is pretty much unused these days though.

Yeah, pretty much.  It relies on shipping around a (binary!!)
`struct sockaddr_in` in a UDP packet, and never evolved into the
age of modern age of firewalls with NAT, and of course, never
supported encryption or authentication.

I have a 1/3rd complete replacement sitting around that I should
wrap up and publish.  I suspect it would have essentially no use
though.  :-)

- Dan C.