Any way to secure or encrypt AIM messages?

Question

Including using a third party messenger such as trillian, pidgin, etc?

Answer 1

Why, what are you planning? A terrorist attack? Pedo spree? You guys make me sick!

Answer 2

Pidgin has a way to encrypt messages (but only if the receiving person also uses Pidgin).

This is an excerpt from the Pidgin website:

Do Pidgin and Finch support secure instant messaging (encrypted IM)?

Short Answer - Yes; use the SILC protocol.

Long Answer - The SILC protocol is natively encrypted. For other protocols, which do not natively support encryption, neither do we. Simply encrypting the data stream with no verification of the parties involved in the conversation is not secure in any sense of the word. Some other clients offer options like this, but we feel that such measures instill a false sense of security that is more harmful than helpful.

    Note that there are a number of third-party plugin developers working on secure IM frameworks. Take a look at the ThirdPartyPlugins page for links to those we know of.