Slug: tor-online
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-Following an embarassingly long period of no Tor support, we [recently
+Following an embarrassingly long period of no Tor support, we [recently
blogged](news/2016-09-05-tor-sasl) about resurrecting Tor.
As of today, Tor users can once more connect to freenode over Tor; the hidden
the abuse that led Tor access to be disabled in the first place, we have
unfortunately had to add another couple of restrictions:
-- You must log in using SASL's `EXTERNAL` or `ECDSA-NIST25P-CHALLENGE` (more
+- You must log in using SASL's `EXTERNAL` or `ECDSA-NIST256P-CHALLENGE` (more
below)
- If you log out while connected via Tor, you will not be able to log in without
reconnecting.
If you haven't set up the requisite SASL authentication, we recommend SASL
EXTERNAL. You'll need to generate a client certificate:
- openssl req -x509 -new -newkey rsa:4096 -nodes -out freenode.pem -keyout freenode.pem
+ openssl req -x509 -sha256 -new -newkey rsa:4096 -days 1000 -nodes -out freenode.pem -keyout freenode.pem
and consult your IRC client's documentation to find out how to use it to
connect. Connect to freenode over TLS on the plain Internet and `/msg NickServ