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Re:A Call to Arms: Supporting Matrix by pmoriarty on Friday July 07, 2017 @05:31PM (#14722289)
You can use OTR to provide end-to-end encryption on IRC.
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Re:A Call to Arms: Supporting Matrix by cyphar on Saturday July 08, 2017 @11:05AM (#14725624)
Aside from requiring everyone to install a plugin to do OTR, the crypto behind Matrix's Olm (based on Signal's Axolotl) is much better suited to asynchronus communication than OTR (and MegaOlm actually supports group chats).

There are many more benefits to Matrix, but just making clear that Matrix's end-to-end crypto is better than just plain OTR.

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