GI Jack
GI Jack
Arbitrary images and URLs are a security risk that transmitting UNICODE and letting the clients render images stored on their computers, hopefully done by trusted system packages is not. IRCv3...
This is best left for bots. So go write a bot ontop of IRC
I think this should be part of a larger effort that moves most of the nickserv and chanserv functions in band as part of the base IRC protocol.
I wasn't suggesting leaving the password on the server. It would just be -K, and it would be implied that the password is stored locally.
SaberUK, The idea would be the password would be shared out of band, by users, perhaps in a private encrypted chat setup with other crypto. You are also making the...
How would this be harder to use. It would simply be a password that gets hashed to an encryption key. That is really simple. It solves two problems. One, getting...
@DarthGandalf - the point is taking something like FiSH and making it an RFC so its part of spec.
As far as FiSH goes, it is yesterdays protocol with exploits against current implementation and uses insecure mode of encryption.
We should use UTF-8 as its pretty much almost universally used by almost everything, including posix locales. I can in fact use UTF-8 on the modern *NIX command line. Anything...
UTF-8 support should be mandated for advertising IRCv3 compatibility. There should be fallback modes for old implementations. There should be support for a UTF8ONLY flag/setting, and it should be entirely...