+<br /><br />
+
+<a name="f1_55"></a>
+<font color="#2f486f">Q: What platforms SILC supports?</font><br />
+A: The SILC Client is available on various Unix systems and is reported to
+work under cygwin on Windows. The SILC Server also works on various Unix
+systems. However, the server has not been tested under cygwin as far as we
+know. The SILC Toolkit is distributed for all platforms, Unix, Cygwin
+and native Windows.
+<br /><br />
+
+<a name="f1_60"></a>
+<font color="#2f486f">Q: Where can I find more information?</font><br />
+A: For more technical information we suggest reading the SILC Protocol
+specifications. You might also want to take a look at the <a
+href="?page=docs">documentation </a> page on the web page.
+<br /><br />
+
+<a name="f1_70"></a>
+<font color="#2f486f">Q: I would like to help out, what can I do?</font><br />
+A: You might want to take a look at the <a
+href="?page=contribute">Contributing</a> page and the <a
+href="?page=todo">TODO</a> list. You might also want to join the
+SILC development mailing list.
+<br /><br />
+
+<a name="f2_0"></a>
+<b>2. Protocol Questions</b><br /><br />
+
+<a name="f2_10"></a>
+<font color="#2f486f">Q: What is the status of SILC protocol in the IETF?</font><br />
+A: The SILC protocol specifications has been submitted currently as
+individual submissions. There does not currently exist a working group
+for this sort of project. Our goal is to fully standardize the SILC and
+thus submit it as RFC to the <a href="http://www.ietf.org/">IETF</a> at a
+later time.
+<br /><br />
+
+<a name="f2_20"></a>
+<font color="#2f486f">Q: How much SILC Protocol is based on IRC?</font><br />
+A: SILC is not based on IRC. The client superficially resembles IRC
+client but everything that happens under the hood is nothing alike IRC.
+SILC could *never* support IRC because the entire network toppology is
+different (hopefully more scalable and powerful). So no, SILC protocol
+(client or server) is not based on IRC. Instead, We've taken good things
+from IRC and left all the bad things behind and not even tried to burden
+the SILC with the IRCs problems that will burden IRC and future IRC
+projects till the end. SILC client resembles IRC client because it is
+easier for new users to start using SILC when they already know all the
+commands.
+<br /><br />
+
+<a name="f2_30"></a>
+<font color="#2f486f">Q: Why use SILC? Why not IRC with SSL?</font><br />
+A: Sure, that is possible, although, does that secure the entire IRC
+network? And does that increase or decrease the lags and splits in the
+IRC network? Does that provide user based security where some specific
+private message are secured? Does that provide security where some
+specific channel messages are secured? And I know, you can answer yes to
+some of these questions. But, security is not just about applying
+encryption to traffic and SILC is not just about `encrypting the
+traffic`. You cannot make insecure protocol suddenly secure just by
+encrypting the traffic. SILC is not meant to be IRC replacement. IRC is
+good for some things, SILC is good for same and some other things.
+<br /><br />
+
+<a name="f2_40"></a>
+<font color="#2f486f">Q: Can I talk from SILC network to IRC network?</font><br />
+A: Simple answer for this is No. The protocols are not compatible which
+makes it impossible to directly talk from SILC network to IRC network or
+vice versa. Developing a gateway between these two networks would
+technically be possible but from security point of view strongly not
+recommended. We have no plans for developing such a gateway.
+<br /><br />
+
+<a name="f2_45"></a>
+<font color="#2f486f">Q: Does SILC support file transfer?</font><br />
+A: Not yet. This is a feature that will be added to the SILC protocol.
+The exact file transfer protocol is undefined.
+<br /><br />
+
+<a name="f2_47"></a>
+<font color="#2f486f">Q: I am behind a firewall, can I use SILC?</font><br />
+A: Yes. If your network administrator can open the port 706 (TCP) you can
+use SILC without problems. You may also compile your SILC client with
+SOCKS support which will proxy your SILC session through the firewall.
+<br /><br />
+
+<a name="f2_50"></a>
+<font color="#2f486f">Q: How secure SILC really is?</font><br />
+A: A good question which I don't have an answer for. We have tried to make
+SILC as secure as possible. However, there is no security protocol or