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Overview
SILC Client is the SILC client program which is used to connect to SILC
server and the SILC network. The SILC Client user interface is based on
the popular Irssi IRC client, and most of the Irssi scripts and plugins
work with SILC Client. Because SILC Client is based on Irssi the chatting
experience is very familiar and makes it very easy for new users to start
using SILC.
SILC Client supports sending of practically any kind of messages
in addition of normal text messages in the SILC network.
This includes multimedia messages like images, video and
audio messages. The session to SILC server is secured with
session key, channel messages are protected with channel
key and private messages with session keys. It is also
possible to use private channel keys and private message
keys in addition to server generated keys. It is also
possible to digitally sign all messages.
SILC Client supports passphrase authentication and public key
authentication based on digital signatures, when connecting
to SILC server. It also supports key exchange (key
agreement) between other SILC users in the SILC network to
negotiate secret key material. This key material then can
be used to secure for example private messages. It is
also possible to exchange public keys and certificates in
the SILC network between clients and servers.
The SILC Client also supports detaching from the SILC network by
closing the connection to the server but without quitting
from the network. Next time the client connects to the
server it resumes the session in the SILC network. During
the detaching the user remains in the network and other
users may query the user information and see that user is
in network but currently detached. Messages sent to user
while being detached are dropped by the server. When
resuming is over the user has automatically same nickname
than before detaching and remains on all channels, and it
seems like user never left the network.
The client also supports creation of friends list, which is
kind of a buddy list familiar from IM (Instant Messaging)
clients. It is possible to fetch friends information such
as their public keys and certificates, business card,
pictures and other information and save them to the friends list.
> Read more about SILC Client features
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