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Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down by matheusmoreira on Thursday April 16, 2020 @05:34PM (#22893812)
Can IRC be used through Tor and with end-to-end encryption?
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Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down by hkt on Thursday April 16, 2020 @06:49PM (#22894372)
It depends on the network. Freenode has a tor ingress: https://freenode.net/news/tor-online

You can connect with SSL and optionally SASL (as well as cloaking your IP) but this is encrypted to the server. Most of IRC is public anyway though so E2E doesn't make total sense.

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Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down by LinuxBender on Monday April 20, 2020 @01:29PM (#22926123)
Yes, IRC servers can support or enforce TLS for the transport and end users can use OTR (Off The Record) with many IRC clients. IRC uses TCP which Tor supports. There are IRC servers on Tor. Here [1] is an example of WeeChat + OTR. OTR is E2E encryption.

[1] - https://github.com/mmb/weechat-otr

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