Thursday 9 March 2017

3 Best Free LAN chat applications

The internal staff communication for small size business is normally done through the telephone line extensions. Many options are available like Skype for Business, OpenFire Server, CD messenger etc. But you are unwilling to invest in such software and have limited requirements. Check any of these three LAN chat applications.

LAN Messengers
Instant Messaging
Message History
AES encryption with RSA as the key exchange mechanism.
Server-less architecture
File Transfer



IP messenger
The oldest and exist since 1996.
Message encryption(RSA2048bit + AES256bit) and sign/verify (PKCS#1-v1_5)
High speed incremental full text search
can even set status
Server-less message communication
Fast file/folder transfer
Note* This app was used in my very first KPO organization in 2005. 


Squiggle
Server-less peer to peer LAN chat
Bridge for connecting two LANs across subnets or WAN
Chat history, Status history
No info about Security.
Codeplex is a trusted and widely used for development.


These are the most important features I have listed, you can check their websites to check additional features.

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