[tor-talk] OFTC and Tor

[Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez]

Tor access at Freenode has been taken down for 6 months because of abuse
though:

https://twitter.com/freenodestaff/status/564848187710906368
https://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml#tor

As for OFTC, it's just exit node luck. Maybe if you know what node is
it, just exclude it on your torrc.

El 09/07/2015 a las 1:48, Sean Lynch escribió:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 5:51 AM Pickfire <pickfire at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
>>
>> I hope that there is also a way to use tor with freenode other than
>> oftc.
>>
>> I wanted to use tor with freenode and oftc in pidgin. And it seems that
>> the method "really hope that the exit I have isn't blocked" have a very,
>> very low probability. (about 10%)
>>
>> I still haven't figured out how to use SSL in freenode and oftc.
>>
> 
> I am fairly sure Freenode allows access through Tor if you are registered
> and authenticate with SASL. There might be some additional step required
> beyond simple authentication; I recall Tor users complaining about the
> requirement. But they may have just been complaining about Javascript or
> the need to use a valid email address? Not sure if SSL is required to auth,
> but you should really be using it. You need to use port 6697, 7000, or 7070
> for SSL.
> 

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Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez

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