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16 Features to be included into the final release of SILC. [Note that the
17 current Developer's Version does not include all of these features, read
18 TODO file for more information.]
21 <li>Normal conferencing services such as private messages, channels,
22 channel messages, etc. All traffic is secured and authenticated.
24 <li>No unique nicknames. There can same nicknames in SILC without
25 collisions. SILC has unique Client ID's, Server ID's and Channel ID's
26 to assure that there are no collisions.
28 <li>Secure key exchange and authentication protocol. SILC Key Exchange
29 protocol provides key material used in the SILC sessions in secure
30 manner. The protocol is immune for example to man-in-the-middle
31 attacks. The SILC Authentication protocol provides strong
32 authentication. Authentication may be based on passphrase or public
33 key (RSA) authentication. For clients there is an option not to
34 use authentication when connecting to servers.
36 <li>All traffic is encrypted and authenticated using the best cryptographic
37 algorithms out there. Command messages, private messages and channel
38 messages are all protected by encryption. User can set private keys
39 for both private message and for channels so that even SILC servers do
40 not know the keys. Cipher keys are, by default, 128 bits in length and
41 public keys, by default, 1024 bits in length.
43 <li>Supports data compression with GZIP to improve performance.
45 <li>SIM (SILC Module) support. Support for loading of shared objects at
46 run-time that provides new and extended features to both SILC client
47 and server. These can provide extra ciphers and extra features to
50 <li>SILC client can be installed and used without root privileges.
52 <li>SILC client can be configured by system wide configuration files but
53 with user specific configuration files as well.