Tag Archives: Pidgin

How to create a SILC chatroom

By admin | December 16, 2008

As a follow-up to my prior post, this is a smaller one on creating a SILC chat room (known as a “channel” in SILC parlance) from within Pidgin.   1.  In Pidgin, click on Buddies -> Add a Chat: 2.  Select the SILC account from the dropdown, create a channel name (whatever you like), give [...]

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Secure Chat with Pidgin

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A step-by-step guide to configure SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) protocol to work with Pidgin. First, if you are wondering what this is (not sure how you found this then, but here goes)…  SILC is a protocol that secures the chatting you do directly with others, or via a chat room on one of the [...]

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