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-<b><big>History</big></b>
-<br /> <br />
-SILC was released in the summer 2000 to the public, but the idea and the
-protocol itself is quite old. The SILC was designed by Pekka Riikonen in
-the year 1996 and first lines of codes were written in the early 1997. The
-SILC has been rewritten three times since its very first version in 1997.
-The first version included SILC client, very preliminary SILC server, RSA
-implementation and 3DES implementation. The server actually was not
-usable but the client looked pretty much the same as the first client
-released in the summer 2000. The first version had also random number
-generator which were based on the SSH's random number generator. The
-current RNG is based on the first RNG but has been rewritten twice since
-the first version.
-<br /> <br />
-The development of SILC was suspended in 1997 when Pekka got busy at
-school and in work. The pause laster several months. The development
-resumed in 1998 when Juha Räsänen and Pekka implemented the ElGamal
-algorithm. However, for the same reasons as previously the development
-stopped again, and was resumed again later in 1998 by doing rewrite of
-ther SILC in C++. This was obviously a mistake but at that time it seemed
-like a good idea. Again, in the winter 1999 the development suspended when
-Pekka got busy writing his thesis and was forced to stop the development.
-<br /> <br />
-Later, in 1999, it was decided that this time SILC will be rewritten from
-scratch in the right way. C++ was obviously a bad choice so plain C
-language was selected again. The protocol itself faced some rework by
-redesigning some core parts of the protocol. The protocol was also fully
-documented and the protocol specifications were submitted to the IETF.
-The result of this development effort is the release now in public. Since
-the release in the summer 2000 several other people have contributed to
-the project as well. And, the development continues.
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