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I'm intending to make an encryption plugin, however as of yet I cant find a way to parse all the outgoing messages without making a Stuffplug-NG talker, which I dont really want to do as part of a plugin, (eg have a talker to do the encoding and a plugin to do the decoding at the other end.)

So if I find a way to parse all the outgoing messages without using a talker then there is a fairly good chance I'll turn it into an Encryption plugin. Probably implememnting 1024-bit RSA public key encryption to negotiate a 128-bit AES synchonous key that would be used for the rest of the convo.

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Originally posted by Choli
Well, once i made one, but now it doesn't work. Anyway, now I think that messenger sends the messages using a secure protocol (i'm not very sure), so there's no need to have encrypted conversations.

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Not true I'm affraid, anyone with a packet sniffer can read your convos.


Edit: Although packet sniffing on the WWW is rather inpractical (if at all possible, I've never researched the idea) But Microsoft can still read all your convos should they have the desire to do so. If they are encrypted then you prevent Microsoft (and anyone else who transfers the data, eg ISP's) from reading them, thus improving your privacy.