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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
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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
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@@ -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