Blowfish Encryption¶

Introduction¶

Blowfish can be used to encrypt messages between 2 persons in query, messages in channel and the topic. In Quassel all messages will be de-/encrypted on core. So it is highly recommend to setup SSL in case of you are not running monolithic client.

Commands¶

a) setting a key for a user or channel

Usage

/setkey <nick|channel> <key>

b) deleting a key for a user or channel

Usage

/delkey <nick|channel>

Build Instructions¶

Blowfish support for Quassel depends on QCA (Qt Cryptographic Architecture) library. It is needed to compile your core/monolithic client with crypt compile option.

... -DWITH_CRYPT=ON ...

For detailed build instructions have at look general build instructons.