pidgin/nest

Migrate the SILC questions from the FAQ.

2019-06-17, John Bailey
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Parents 5dd08526d3a2
Children db883e7d0a28
Migrate the SILC questions from the FAQ.
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    hugo/content/help/silc.md
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    +---
    +title: "SILC"
    +date: 2019-06-17T23:14:46-04:00
    +---
    +
    +### What is SILC?
    +
    +SILC is an open, security-focused end-to-end encrypted protocol. Its website used to be hosted at [wwww.silcnet.org](http://www.silcnet.org), but this is currently offline.
    +
    +### 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 are able to locate the SILC Toolkit and 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.