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@@ -5,23 +5,21 @@ daemon, and bot. It's all you're ever going to need for chatting. All of them have these potentially interesting properties: - full IPv6 support - - SSL/TLS support, including client certificates + - TLS support, including client certificates - minimal dependencies - very compact and easy to hack on - - liberal license + - permissive license degesch ------- The IRC client. It is largely defined by being built on top of GNU Readline. Its interface should however feel familiar for weechat or irssi users. -This is the youngest and largest application within the project and it's -currently under development. - -It has most of the stuff you'd expect of an IRC client, such as being able to -set up multiple servers, powerful configuration system, integrated help, -mIRC text formatting, CTCP queries, automatic splitting of overlong messages, -autocomplete, file logging, and command aliases. +This is the youngest and largest application within the project. It has most of +the stuff you'd expect of an IRC client, such as being able to set up multiple +servers, powerful configuration system, integrated help, mIRC text formatting, +CTCP queries, automatic splitting of overlong messages, autocomplete, logging +to file, and command aliases. kike ---- @@ -30,8 +28,8 @@ than a system-wide daemon. If all you want is a decent, minimal IRCd for a small network of respectful users (or bots), or testing, this one will do it. Notable features: - - SSL/TLS autodetection (why doesn't everyone have this?) - - IRCop authentication through SSL/TLS client certificates + - TLS autodetection (why doesn't everyone have this?) + - IRCop authentication through TLS client certificates - epoll support on Linux; it should be able to handle quite a number of users - partial IRCv3 support @@ -103,7 +101,7 @@ as a `forking' type systemd user service. Client Certificates ------------------- -`kike' uses SHA1 fingerprints of SSL client certificates to authenticate users. +`kike' uses SHA1 fingerprints of TLS client certificates to authenticate users. To get the fingerprint from a certificate file in the required form, use: $ openssl x509 -in public.pem -outform DER | sha1sum |