With this being the age of waning privacy, your IT department is watching your emails and monitoring your chat messages. Pidgin with the Encryption plugin is a must have. Pidgin is an IM program that lets you log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AIM, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time. Pidgin is compatible with the following IM networks: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. Pidgin is a free open source chat client that is available for download at http://www.pidgin.im/download/. Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems.
What makes Pidgin something to talk about is the Pidgin-Encryption 3.0 which encrypts conversations with RSA encryption. This keeps eavesdroppers from watching or listening in your chat sessions. The message just looks like gibberish. The users on both ends will have to enable encryption and accept the others RSA key. I have been using this personally for about a year without any issues.
After downloading and installing Pidgin set up an account. Yahoo, AIM or any other one you use. Next enable the Pidgin-Encryption 3.0 plugin. If the plugin is not there put it in with:
apt-get install pidgin–encryption or yum install pidgin–encryption
Then open a chat window and click on the grayed out lock symbol next to the menu options. Then Enable Encryption.
When the lock is green the path is clean, you have an encrypted connection between you and your friend.
Enjoy private chat.
This will save your butt. Trust me!
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