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title: "SILC"

date: 2019-06-17T23:14:46-04:00

SILC is an open, security-focused end-to-end encrypted protocol. Its website is

currently hosted at [silc.github.io](https://silc.github.io).

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.