http://waste.sourceforge.net/index.html

Read the page, it's a 490kb program that uses BlowFish based PGP and has chat and file sending support. It's open source and seems pretty fool proof. Take a look. (It supports up to 4096 bit encryption, which should suffice for even our most paranoid members) If it works as well as it could, we may have secure chat and file sending alternative. I'v downlaoded it and it seems pretty impressive.

That is rather interesting, but would only really be useful for a cabal of us at the forum. Messages are only secured between the network and outside the network, so for something like the forum, anyone who was prying would simply join, and see everything anyway! The only way round that would be to encrypt the files separately, so then what is the point of using the network?

Perhaps if we were a terrorist cell, or a company, but this security model is really bad for an ad-hoc network of people who don't know nor trust each other (no offence!)