

Tor will do the conversion for you internally and you'll connect to freenode. After you've made the change, just connect your torified IRC client to the IP you specified in your mapaddress statement for the freenode service. Mapaddress 10.40.40.41 5t7o4shdbhotfuzp.onionīe sure to HUP (reload) Tor if you change your torrc. Mapaddress 10.40.40.40 mejokbp2brhw4omd.onion Just use the 'mapaddress' approach and torify irssi to start it up.) Add a line to your torrc, as in this example: (We do not recommend that you use Privoxy with irssi. Otherwise, use Tor's "mapaddress" feature to fake it. If your IRC client can handle socks5 with remote dns, you can just connect to the. You can always find a pointer to our Tor hidden service in DNS, in an unresolved CNAME record,, which can be retrieved, for example, via the *nix shell command: Latencies are improving all the time and can be quite reasonable.


We have to have a copy of your public key in order to verify the signature, so make sure to include a copy if it's not available on the keyserver network. The canonical way to do this would be to execute something like: Also, if you'd rather your hash be encrypted, you may encrypt to 0x035D6B1D. The required hash can be generated with either Mailing tor at freenode dot net with your nick and a password hash signed together. The current Tor hidden service address for freenode is mejokbp2brhw4omd.onion For users of Tor with gpg keys that don't mind being identified by them, we offer another hidden service of 5t7o4shdbhotfuzp.onion The latter hidden service is authenticated with a nick and password combination and subsequently will not get blocked during periods of general tor abuse. (You can actually connect to dalnet with tor but it requires a little exit node hopping to find a good one) But unlike dalnet it has set up a hidden service irc server which you can connect to. Reading between the lines I would guess freenode (like dalnet) doesn't allow tor connections.
