About:
SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which provides secure conferencing services in the Internet. It can be used to send any kind of messages, in addition to normal text messages. This includes multimedia messages like images, video, and audio stream. All messages in the SILC network are encrypted and authenticated, and messages can also be digitally signed. SILC protocol supports AES, SHA-1, PKCS#1, PKCS#3, X.509, OpenPGP, and is being developed in the IETF. The software is delivered as SILC Client for end users, SILC Server for system administrators, and SILC Toolkit for application developers.

Release focus: Major security fixes

Changes:
This version fixes a possible buffer overflow.

Author:
priikone [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.36/10.00 (38 votes)

Homepage:
http://silcnet.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://silcnet.org/software/download/client/
Tar/BZ2:
http://silcnet.org/software/download/client/
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://silcnet.org/community/development/cvs.php
Mailing list archive:
http://silcnet.org/community/lists/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: BSD License (revised), OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		OS Independent, SymbianOS
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Communications, Communications :: Chat, Communications :: Conferencing, Multimedia, Security :: Cryptography, Software Development, Software Development :: Libraries

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Toolkit	1.1.8	25-Oct-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Client	1.1.6	27-Oct-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Map A SILC Map.	1.0	23-Apr-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Server	1.1.14	29-Oct-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.1.6	Major bugfixes	27-Oct-2008 18:10
1.1.5	Minor bugfixes	06-Sep-2008 22:23
1.1.4	Major security fixes	20-Mar-2008 11:40
1.1.3	Major security fixes	07-Nov-2007 11:38
1.1.2	Major bugfixes	05-Jul-2007 07:59
1.1.1	Major bugfixes	29-Jun-2007 09:25
1.1	Major feature enhancements	04-Jun-2007 12:16
1.1 Beta6	Minor bugfixes	28-May-2007 10:22
1.1 Beta5	Major bugfixes	21-May-2007 10:20
1.1 Beta4	Major security fixes	16-May-2007 11:22

 Comments

[»] Good
by Ice07 - Mar 11th 2007 10:17:27

Very good, I like it very much.

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[»] Kudos to this project
by Daito - Jan 28th 2002 06:16:37

Vey nicely done. Almost just like regular IRC and alot more secure. Would love to see this go further.

~D

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Daito

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[»] Re: Kudos to this project
by Toni Willberg - Oct 28th 2002 18:23:43


> Vey nicely done. Almost just like regular IRC and alot more secure. Would love to see this go further.
It has gone further. We are reaching 1.x any month now. :)

You might want to check it out again!

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