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Idea
Some of the services a server can provide require passing sensitive information. I wish it weren’t needed, but people may be passing passwords or other personal details, and these should preferrably be encrypted for people to trust the provider.
In the case of HTTP, there is HTTPS. Similarly there is IRC with TLS, but the IRC server can still see the messages in clear text.
Suppose I’d want the bot to accept registration to this server’s authenticated services (such as [[!rel4sub media]] and this wiki), as an alternative to CGI scripts and a web interface. How could information like a password be passed end-to-end encrypted from the user in a private message to the bot?
Possible solution: Off-The-Record messaging, i.e. OTR.
If the bot could open private OTR messaging sessions with other IRC users, it could safely pass private data.
Another option is Tox, see [[!template id=tktref proj=funbot n=14]].
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