Double Tall Iced Mocha, Lite on the Chocolate

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.