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jmlee320
August 19th, 2009, 01:36 PM
I am looking for a secure instant messenger for a corporate environment. Most personnel are located in Denver, however I have 3 remote offices on the east/gulf coast. I am using a Ubuntu file server, but all of my client machines are windows based.

There is this thread in the forums:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=968815&highlight=instant+messenger

but it was last active coming up on a year ago.

The OTR project appears to have dried up @ least for the moment.

There is this:

http://retromessenger.sourceforge.net/

but I have yet to see any kind of review on the product.

Something like Trillian looked like it might be ideal, but from what I can find Trillian encryption is only from sender to server and not end to end.

Any thoughts out there? Is the RetroMessenger something anyone has tried?

Comments appreciated.
kevdog
August 19th, 2009, 01:57 PM
What's wrong with the OTR program -- to my knowledge it still works correctly. I've confirmed this information on the Pidgin mailing list (which is the descendent of Trillian)
jmlee320
August 19th, 2009, 02:26 PM
From the thread I linked earlier:

only thing i can tell is that i noticed from site statistics Pidgin Encryption is less active in development, last commit 6 months ago .

That coupled with the last news update to the OTR site was Jun 2008 and there is no reference anywhere I can find on the site to say Ubuntu 8.04 or 9.04.

So while I certainly could be entirely mistaken, it @ least appeared the dev team was not actively keeping the project current.
rookcifer
August 19th, 2009, 04:01 PM
From the thread I linked earlier:



That coupled with the last news update to the OTR site was Jun 2008 and there is no reference anywhere I can find on the site to say Ubuntu 8.04 or 9.04.

So while I certainly could be entirely mistaken, it @ least appeared the dev team was not actively keeping the project current.

What is there to keep current?

OTR is definitely the way to go. I use it and it works well and is easy to set-up. It also utilizes strong AES encryption.
jmlee320
August 19th, 2009, 04:08 PM
That being the case I stand corrected. Folks thank-you.