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Anonymous2008-01-27 5:34
i gave a lot of through to rewriting hybrid to be anonymous, i believe it could be done, all you need to do it hide most information that is usually passed along, forced vhost masks are enough there and they can be pretty generic
the next step was to find out how hybrid references it's users in the code, ideal would be if it uses the host and not the name because then you could give everyone a default name of Anonymous and still let them change it themselves if they wanted to
otherwise you could give them names like Anonnnn, kinda like Guest on a lot of irc-networks
these rewrites would be much better than writing a new from scratch because hybrid has a stable code base and ssl support, also it would let anyone with a client use it, kinda like silc but without the pointless bullshit of inventing a new protocol for something that could be done with irc
i'll start going through hybrid code and researching for these rewrites based on what you guys think about it, i already have a lot of experience of using hybrid but if anyone else has more experience of it's code and feels up to it, then let us know