Shoutbox

Hi,

After the noticably lack of decent (proven secure and/or open source) cryptography options of content (both text and other) with respect to MSN, I am considering a few different paths of creating my own.

I have come across the API set for creating plugins for this application, but there doesn't seem to be a clear way to directly modify inbound and outbound text (and possibly other types such as files if possible?) for encrypt and decrypt.  Could someone please direct to me as to whether this is or is not possible?  Or even a possible work around?

Mostly this is a concept in my head at the moment, but I am considering an implementation of some sort using GPG APIs.  Taking the plugin option seems a lot less complex than writing some sort of pseudo-proxy filter and a parser of the MSN protocol.  Also, with the plugin approach it seems that I would be less likely to have to constantly update code due to MSN protocol changes.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated, including some possible further example source recommendations than those provided in MPPlugins.zip.

Thanks.

The API doesn't expose messages sent and received by design. If you want to get at these messages, you'll need to perform some form of hooking to get the messages e.g. Winsock hooking.