Gale

Gale is a messaging system resembling Zephyr in UI and social characteristics, but IRC in architecture, with some features of its own. It supports the use of public-key cryptography for privacy and authentication.

It has a spanning-tree topology with failover, little server state, no concept of "op privileges", security through end-to-end encryption, multi-line messages, and command-line-driven clients, and directed categories, which prevents unnecessary distribution of messages.

Last updated 8 May, 2002


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Requirements
  • Open SSL (Build Prerequisite)
  • ADNS (Build Prerequisite)
  • iconv (Build Prerequisite)
  • Boehm conservative garbage collector (Build Prerequisite)
Related Projects

Eva, Praya, Spat

Subprograms

gsend

Versions

0.99

0.99 beta released 2001-06-29

User Community and Support

User tutorial and guide available from http://gale.org/users/; developer's guide available from http://gale.org/arch/index.html

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