My chat application Egalite is available for testing. It does direct connections with SSL to anyone who is listening, and also does XMPP over servers like gchat of jabber for the more conservative. Direct chat is great for talking to your wives and sweethearts separately, or for talking to your swiss banker without google keeping the records. Of course your ISP will can know what IP you connect to if they look. They won't know what you talked about because SSL encrypts it. Serious cryptanalists may get past that, if they capture enough packets. Also it's great because the server can't be down. And it's just plain cool. Works on Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, MeeGo. Probably also on NuTyx. You can get it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/egalite It is in some repos at build.opensuse.org, and in launchpat.net. Look for berndhs. Enjoy, Bernd Real soon now I will make the manual more complete.