pidgin/nest

Copy most of the text from the main page to the about page so that there is some actual content there. Fixes PIDGIN-17541.

2021-06-21, John Bailey
0fa5ad561fc3
Copy most of the text from the main page to the about page so that there is some actual content there. Fixes PIDGIN-17541.

Testing Done:
Ran server locally and verified page appeared as expected.

Bugs closed: NEST-33, PIDGIN-17541

Reviewed at https://reviews.imfreedom.org/r/765/
---
title: SILC
date: 2019-06-18T03:27:26.000Z
weight: 60
lastmod: 2019-08-21T04:05:48.000Z
---
### What is SILC?
SILC is an open, security-focused end-to-end encrypted protocol. Its website is
currently hosted at [silc.github.io](https://silc.github.io).
### What do I need to use the SILC protocol?
You need to install the SILC Toolkit and the libpurple SILC plugin. These were
generally provided as packages in several Linux distributions, however, many
distributions have begun dropping these packages due to being "unmaintained."
If you're compiling Pidgin and libpurple yourself, see the `./configure --help`
for specifying the location of the SILC headers and libraries. If you're
compiling with an SRPM, use `--with-silc` to build the `purple-silc` RPM
On Windows, the SILC Toolkit is installed with Pidgin.