stalk home page

This is the home page of the stalk client. It is a modification of the talk provided by netkit so
that it can work with encrypted sessions, using the triple DES implementation I took from
GnuPG. 

The current features are: 

       Cryptography, so that your conversations are really private 
       Compatible with other talk clients (without using crypto, of course) 
       Works in computers with dynamically assigned IP addresses 

Please note that the last one is not my fault. The netkit distribution comes with a patch that
solves the problem, I just applied the patch. It seems, however, that the talk clients that
come with Linux distributions don't have the patch applied. 

If you want to try it out, download the source here. It was tested on Debian/GNU Linux i386,
and should compile with other distributions. I'm not sure if it will work with other OSes or
architetures, but I promise I'll try to learn how to write a configure script some time in the
future. 

I just came up with version 0.3. I don't know if anyone read my page before, but it said that I
would add suport for more encryption algorithms. Well, here it is. stalk now supports 3DES,
CAST5, Blowfish and Twofish, (all of them took from GnuPG. Many thanks to free software
:-) ) and it should be easy to add more. Also, the asterisk-in-hostname feature should be
decent now. The only problem it has is that it won't work with more than one asterisk in the
hostname. I'm not sure if it's really necessary. 


http://www.cwb.matrix.com.br/jungmann/

Thiago Jung Bauermann