Free silc software for linux

SILC Map is an utility which can be used to visualize the topology of a SILC network. This project can create maps which indicate the exact global position of the servers and it can create HTML pages out of the information it gathers from the servers.

It is also possible to create a HTML map page which allows the user to click the servers on the map image to get more detailed information of the server. The links between the routers and servers can also be drawn on the map image.

SILC project is part of the official Pidgin distribution and by downloading Pidgin you will also get the SILC protocol support in it. If you download sources and compile them you will get the SILC support automatically.

If you download binary version of Pidgin, you will need to download a separate SILC Pidgin plugin package. In addition, you will also need to download and install the SILC Toolkit in order to get the SILC libraries. All the following packages are available courtesy of the Pidgin project.

The following binary packages include the SILC Pidgin plugin. You can install the SILC Pidgin plugin into your system and get SILC support in Pidgin automatically. Note that, you will also need to download and install the SILC Toolkit. Windows version includes the SILC libraries, and downloading SILC Toolkit is not necessary.

silc improved is an SILC client without a user interface. silc improved does output via files and input throught FIFOs. Most features of SILC are implemented.
Commands:
/j < channel > join to a channel
/l [channel] leave the actual or named channel
/msg < nick > < message > send a private message
/set signed < on|off > Set signing of messages on/off
/set signal_detach < on|off > When SIGTERM or SIGINT is caught, si detaches the session
/query < nick > Start a query with the user, so all private messages are no longer written in the master channel. the query has his own directory under $silcidr/query/$username
/names prints the users of the actual channel
and all other silc commands ( unkown commands are directly send to the server )
Usage:
There are endless possibilities using si. i use in one window a multitail and in the other the python input shell, you can find in the CVS.
Installation;
first you had to install libsilc (http://silcnet.org)
cd $sourcedir
make
make install (as root)
When your SILC includes/libs are not in /usr/local/silc you had to specify them like this
make SILCINCLUDE=/path/to/silc/include SILCLIB=/path/to/silc/lib
Enhancements:
- This release has been ported to SILC toolkit 1.1.
- The code has been cleaned up.

SILC Autodist is a program which is used to manage and create source distributions.

The Autodist is a source distribution management system that allows powerful mechanisms to define what is included in and excluded from a distribution, and what license the distribution is released under. It is also used to create the actual distribution source packages. Autodist allows distribution management in file, directory and file content level. Different distributions may include different portions of files, for example, excluding certain features from certain distributions. It is always guaranteed that anything not defined for the distribution, is removed automatically (files, file content, directories), thus ensuring that nothing is accidentally included in the distribution.

The Autodist creates Makefile.am files from Makefile.ad files and configure.ac file from one or more configure.ad files. Any other file ending with .ad suffix will also be processed. The processed file will have the .ad suffix removed (see Preparing source tree). Autodist also creates and packages the distribution using common GNU distribution creation process, specificly `make dist. Autodist, however, controls this process and during packaging phase the Autodist processes all files in the distribution (other than *.ad files, which has already been processed earlier by Autodist). The resulted package is a processed source distribution package, processed according to the rules specified in the distribution file(s) (see Creating distribution).

Any file in the source tree may use distdefs (distribution defines (see Distdefines)) which are defined in the distributions. When distribution is packaged only the files, directories and file content that is either outside of any distdef, or inside the defined distdefs will be included in the distribution. Any other file, directory or content in the file will be removed. It is guaranteed, if a file, a directory or a piece of file content is not inside a defined distdef it will not be delivered to the distribution.

Any file, Makefile.am, configure.ac, or source file processed with Autodist is always compliant with the tools needed to process them. All files can also be processed with the corresponding tools even before processing them with Autodist. This makes it possible, for example, to compile sources before they have been processed, and undefined lines are removed. The distdefs are respected in source files by the preprocessor.

Autodist is not a binary packaging system. It is specificly used to create source distributions. A binary packaging system, however can be hooked to the distribution creation process, if needed.

SILC Server provides system administrators ability to easily and quickly set up new SILC networks. SILC Server is full implementation of server side of the SILC protocol.
SILC Server is ideal for small offices and organizations to set up secure conferencing network in LAN. SILC Server is compact and fast, and scales easily to Internet usage as well.
SILC Server provides full featured implementation of server side of the SILC protocol. The SILC Server is intended for system administrators who would like to set up either own SILC router or SILC server.
SILC Server is ideal for small offices and organizations to set up secure conferencing network in the local area network (LAN). SILC Server project is also suitable for Internet usage as it scales well, is compact and fast.
SILC Server can act either as SILC router or SILC server. It is also able to act as Backup router and take the responsibilities of the primary router if it becomes unresponsive. If your network has only one server then SILC Server acts by default as router server. Small LAN networks manage fine with only one SILC Server so it is very easy and fast to set up.
The difference of router server and normal SILC server is that router server handles most of the message routing and also keeps the global network state up to date. Normal SILC server on the other hand handles only local users and message routing to them. This arrangement makes the SILC network fast and scalable. SILC Server is easy to configure to act either as normal server or router server.
Whats New in 1.0.4 Stable Release:
- This release fixes a small problem with parsing the 1.3 protocol version string correctly.
- Clients that conform to the 1.3 protocol will not be able to connect to a SILC server that isnt running this version.
Whats New in 1.1 Beta 1 Development Release:
- Support for the new SILC Toolkit was added.

Irssi is a modular IRC client for UNIX that currently has only text mode user interface, but 80-90% of the code isnt text mode specific, so other UIs could be created pretty easily.
Irssi also isnt really even IRC specific anymore, theres already working SILC and ICB modules available. Support for other protocols like ICQ and Jabber could be created some day too.
Main features:
- Optional automation - Theres lots of things Irssi does for you automatically that some people like and others just hate. Things like: nick completion, creating new window for newly joined channel, creating queries when msgs/notices are received or when you send a msg, closing queries when its been idle for some time, etc.
- Multiserver friendly - I think Irssi has clearly the best support for handling multiple server connections. You can have as many as you want in as many ircnets as you want. Having several connections in one server works too, for example when you hit the (ircnets) 10 channels/connection limit you can just create another connection and you hardly notice it. If connection to server is lost, Irssi tries to connect back until its successful. Also channels you were joined before disconnection are restored, even if theyre "temporarily unavailable" because of netsplits, Irssi keeps rejoining back to them. Also worth noticing - theres not that stupid "server is bound to this window, if this window gets closed the connection closes" thing that ircII based clients have.
- Channel automation - You can specify what channels to join to immediately after connected to some server or IRC network. After joined to channel, Irssi can automatically request ops for you (or do anything, actually) from channels bots.
- Window content saving - Say /LAYOUT SAVE when youve put all the channels and queries to their correct place, and after restarting Irssi, the channels will be joined back into windows where they were saved.
- Tab completing anything - You can complete lots of things with tab: nicks, commands, command -options, file names, settings, text format names, channels and server names. Theres also an excellent /msg completion that works transparently with multiple IRC networks. Completing channel nicks is also pretty intelligent, it first goes through the people who have talked to you recently, then the people who have talked to anyone recently and only then it fallbacks to rest of the nicks. You can also complete a set of words youve specified, for example homepage< tab > changes it to your actual home page URL.
- Excellent logging - You can log any way you want and as easily or hard as you want. With autologging Irssi logs everything to specified directory, one file per channel/nick. ircII style /WINDOW LOG ON is also supported. Theres also the "hard way" of logging - /LOG command which lets you specify exactly what you wish to log and where. Log rotating is supported with all the different logging methods, you can specify how often you want it to rotate and what kind of time stamp to use.
- Excellent ignoring - You can most probably ignore anything any way you want. Nick masks, words, regular expressions. You can add exceptions to ignores. You can ignore other peoples replies in channels to nicks you have ignored. You can also specify that the specific ignores work only in specific channel(s).
- Lastlog and scrollback handling - /LASTLOG command has some new features: -new option checks only lines that came since you last did /LASTLOG command, -away option checks new lines since you last went away. Regular expression matches work also, of course. Going to some wanted place at scrollback has always been hard with non-GUI clients. A search command that jumps around in scrollback in GUI-style is still missing from Irssi, but theres something thats almost as good as it. /LASTLOG always shows timestamps when the line was printed, even if you didnt have timestamps on. Now doing /SB GOTO < timestamp > jumps directly to the position in scrollback you wanted. Great feature when you want to browse a bit of the discussion what happened when someone said your name (as seen in awaylog) or topic was changed (/last -topics)

Feast (Far East Trader) is an IRC to SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) translator.

SILC stands for Secure Internet Live Conferencing. SILCs purpose in life is to provide a secure chat environment. The raw protocol is an absolute bear to work with and the C toolkit isnt much better. With that said many have found their way off of IRC and onto SILC.

If you would like to communicate with people on SILC then Far East Trader might be the tool youve been looking for. Combined with tools like stunnel or inetd Far East Trader can act as a bouncer allowing IRC clients to connect to SILC servers.