Tor support for irc server

[gsantner]

Please support connecting to the IRC Server over tor.

E.g. Freenodes has this tor address: https://freenode.net/news/tor-online

[Mikaela]

What currently prevents you from connecting to freenode using Tor with TeleIRC?

[FruitieX]

Hi,

This project uses node-irc to connect to the IRC network, and so if any IRC features are missing, they need to be implemented there. Please either file an issue with them, or wait until we migrate to another IRC library once a better one exists (irc-framework is looking promising).

On a side note: if you have to use Tor, I wouldn't recommend piping your conversations to Telegram as it is not a secure means of communication.

[gsantner]

@Mikaela How would you set/apply a proxy to it?

@FruitieX: The problem is, that IRC leaks the IP of the bot to anyone joining the chat.

[Mikaela]

@Mikaela How would you set/apply a proxy to it?

https://github.com/znc/znc/issues/143#issuecomment-12858126

[FruitieX]

@gsantner ah, that makes more sense.

[gsantner]

@Mikaela Thanks for your notice, I'm trying with that one

@FruitieX Maybe a mention how to do it would be great. I would say this is a critical issue of this application. (or at least the library behind it)

[FruitieX]

If it can be done through a proxy as Mikaela is suggesting, then I'm all for adding an explanation on how to do that in the README.

[Mikaela]

I ended up here via the ZNC issue where I rewrote my comment earlier and I think I am reopening this as this TeleIRC did move to irc-framework which does seem to support SOCKS proxies (I am not a coder and thus not entirely sure though). I think TeleIRC is either missing documentation on how to pass the options to irc-framework or missing support for those options.

• https://github.com/kiwiirc/irc-framework/blob/14973e1907811391bf3950d2b6fdffd1b347bb83/src/transports/net.js#L83-L97

[Mikaela]

Loosely related: https://github.com/FruitieX/teleirc/issues/259 as freenode requires SASL EXTERNAL (SASL + CertFP) for Tor connections.