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Why PGP-ICQ?
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PGP-ICQ is a plug-in application for the most popular instant messenger software
in the world - Mirabilis' ICQ. It allows you to
encrypt your ICQ messages using the power of the world's best encryption software -
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP).
Have you ever thought how vulnerable ICQ is and how easy it is for strangers
to read your ICQ traffic? It's obvious that you might want to encrypt some
of your important ICQ messages just like you would encrypt your important
files and emails.
Well, you've come to the right place. Encrypting for the ICQ traffic - that's
what PGP-ICQ does. More to say, PGP-ICQ is free. Even more to say,
it's an open source software, so you can trust it: anyone can examine
the source code and see that it does not contain any tricks, including
security backdoors.
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What it takes
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With verison 0.9 PGP-ICQ provides tools for creating and managing public
and private PGP keys. It does not require the PGP software to be installed
on your computer in order to get PGP-ICQ to work (still required by verson 0.5).
After you have installed PGP-ICQ and set up your PGP keys, you will notice a
small "PGP" button appearing in all of your ICQ message windows. Using PGP-ICQ
commands, you will have to assign a public key from your PGP key database to
every person on your ICQ list you want to send encrypted messages to. Once you
have assigned the keys, you will be able to encrypt the outgoing messages and
decrypt incoming messages.
See the FAQ for further information about other PGP-ICQ
features.
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Screenshots
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Encrypting an outgoing message.
Decrypting an incoming message.
Decrypting a history event.
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