On: Kirc – A tiny IRC client written in POSIX C99

[oarsinsync]

> IRC networks are usually public, so anyone could join your channel and listen in, even with end-to-end encryption.

Yep, and all they'd see is encrypted garbage, unless they have encryption keys, if the messages are end-to-end encrypted. That's the whole point.

There are ways to do this on IRC (e.g. libfish), but no idea how that crypto actually stacks up by todays standards.

[boogies → oarsinsync]

> and all they'd see is encrypted garbage, unless they have encryption keys, if the messages are end-to-end encrypted.

Yep, and they would have the encryption keys, for most channels, if the channels are to remain public, no?