The transport is protected with session keys negotiated during the SILC key exchange protocol. SILC protocol defines secure binary packet protocol, which provides encrypted and authenticated binary packets. All data in SILC are sent using this secure binary packet protocol and all packets are automatically encrypted. This is analogous of using TLS/SSL to protect the socket layer, except that SILC defines the binary packet protocol itself.

The SILC was developed by Pekka Riikonen in Finland. He also started the SILC project that now coordinates the SILC development. He has worked for years in the field of security, for example several years at the SSH Communications Security Corporation as Chief Engineer with responsibilities in IPSEC core development. The SILC Project consists of several volunteers who maintain the SILC Network, its routers and servers. Volunteers who provide the silcnet.

SILC stands for Secure Internet Live Conferencing. SILC is very much the same as IRC with the major difference being that all conversations are encrypted and much more secure then IRC. Wikipedia on SILC

The Government of Canada is bound by the Privacy Act, which protects the privacy rights of individuals. The Privacy Act regulates the collection and use of personal information by the federal government and agencies. As such, the Privacy Act governs Transport Canada's programs. An applicant's personal information would be used only for assessment purposes within the context of the program.

The SILC server is available for free download from the silcnet.org web page. We are not aware of any other SILC server implementations, so far.

SILC Toolkit is a package intended for software developers who would like to develope their own SILC based applications or help in the development of the SILC. The Toolkit includes SILC Protocol Core library, SILC Crypto library, SILC Key Exchange (SKE) library, SILC Math library, SILC Modules (SIM) library, SILC Utility library, SILC Client library and few other libraries.

The official SILC client is available for free download from the silcnet.org web page. There are also several independent projects working with the SILC Toolkit to come up with various other clients, mostly GUI clients. See our links page for links to other clients.

Question that is justified no doubt of that. SILC was not started to become a replacement for IRC. SILC was something that didn't exist in 1996 or even today except that SILC is now released. However, I did check out the IRC3 project in 1997 when I started coding and planning the SILC protocol. But, IRC3 is problematic. Why? Because it still doesn't exist. The project is almost at the same spot where it was in 1997 when I checked it out. And it was old project back then as well.

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The topology of the SILC network includes SILC routers and the SILC servers (and SILC clients of course). Normal SILC server does not have direct connections with other SILC servers. They connect directly to the SILC router. SILC Routers may have several server connections and they may connect to several SILC routers. The SILC routers are the servers in the network that know everything about everything.

There has been others developing their own implementations of the SILC protocol as well. See our links page for links to those projects.

They are not actually. The SILC Client and SILC Server code is distributed in SILC Toolkit merely as example code for how to use the SILC Toolkit. The SILC Client and SILC Server distirbutions may include different code than what is found in the SILC Toolkit distribution. You should not use the client and server found in SILC Toolkit in production environment, but treat them merely as example applications.

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Your work is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.

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The AES is the only required algorithm. The protocol specification also lists optional algorithms like Twofish, CAST, etc., and you can negotiate other algorithms as well during the SILC key exchange protocol, if needed.

The required encryption mode currently is CBC with inter-packet chaining. The specification recommends implementations to use CTR mode as well, and defines randomized CBC (with random IV's) as optional mode. It is also possible to negotiate other modes during SILC key exchange protocol, if needed. We have also looked into so called authenticated encryption modes that NIST are currently considering. More information will follow later.

The required hash function is SHA-1, but also the MD5 is added to the specification as optional hash function. The SHA-1 is also the required hash function when used as part of HMAC to provide integrity protection for encrypted packets.

The MAC (Message Authentication Code) for SILC packet in the secure binary packet protocol is always computed after the encryption from the ciphertext. This is so called Encrypt-Then-MAC order. Same order is used for example by the IPSEC (ESP) protocol to compute MAC. A packet sequence number is also used in the MAC computation. The MAC itself is appended at the end of the packet and is never encrypted.

Definitely yes. You can receive public keys when you negotiate for example private message key with some other client, and you must verify the key before accepting it. Reason are same as in previous answer.

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 IETF at a later time. This can happen only after we have requested the IETF to accept SILC as RFC. As of today, we have not yet even requested this from the IETF. We want to let the protocol mature a bit more.

SILC is not based on IRC. The SILC 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 topology is different (more scalable and powerful). So no, SILC protocol (client or server) is not based on IRC.