Google Talk

Well if you have not heard already Google Talk is accepting login requests. Someone discovered earlier the that boxes resolving to talk.google.com were in fact running a Jabber server and of now they have figured out that you can login with your Gmail username and password.

While the last thing I need is another IM account. I am happy that they decided the Jabber protocol instead of doing something proprietary, I imagine that they are going to release a client but those of us with IM clients that already support Jabber don’t need to use it.

So I have been screwing around with Adium, it appears as though they require TLS to connect which is a good thing. If I enable plain text authentication and disable TLS, I get an authentication error. However I have not had a conversation with anyone yet over “talk” so I have not been able to look at a packet dump of a conversation to confirm that those are encrypted as well. But I would imagine that they are, since the jabber servers I have used in the past use TLS for the entire session.