In message <38952.138.26.156.222.1042579828.squirrel@mail.vsrc.uab.edu>, emre@u
ab.edu writes:
>> And anyone sniffing the traffic here at work!  That is one of the
>> reasons I want to get away from Yahoo! :)
>
>Licq can encrypt your messages with SSL, but both parties have to run
>Licq.  It doesn't run on Windoze as far as I know.
>
>http://www.licq.org/info.html
>
>

Gabber (which is in pkgsrc) will do SSL to the gabber server; it, in 
turn, can proxy to other IM systems.  (I haven't checked if the pkgsrc 
version of gabber does SSL; I built mine from scratch before it was in 
pkgsrc.)

Note, of course, that this means that you're trusting the server.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)