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
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 -sha256 -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