[20:03] Boilerplate: (I'd be talking about this on #irantech if I hadn't gotten banned last night) - From what I'm seeing there's a lot of very willing folk who haven't gotten onto the tech band-wagon. And the technically "able" don't have a lot of time for folk who aren't. So Q: what's the simplest thing to set up ... Tor? Proxy? #granularity

[20:03] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psiphon < > http://psiphon.civisec.org/ < "Psiphon takes a substantially different approach to censorship circumvention than other tools used for such purposes, such as The Onion Router aka Tor. Psiphon requires no download on the client side, and thus offers ease-of-use for the end user."

[20:04] Added > http://www.civisec.org/guides/everyones-guides < "Everyone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship" to > http://bentrem.sycks.net/resources.html < Other Software" from CiviSec > http://www.civisec.org/software/other-software &

[20:05] FYI: http://128.100.171.10/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2355&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 "Iran's cyber-revolution gets a hand from Canada"

[20:05] http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/06/a-deeper-look-at-the-iranian-firewall/ "A Deeper Look at The Iranian Firewall" | "Iranian Traffic Engineering" > http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/06/iranian-traffic-engineering/ < (ArborNetworks)

from FreeNode.Net/irc_servers.shtml

The current Tor hidden service address for freenode is mejokbp2brhw4omd.onion
For users of Tor with gpg keys that don't mind being identified bythem, we offer another hidden service of5t7o4shdbhotfuzp.onionThe latter hidden service is authenticated with a nick and passwordcombination and subsequently will not get blocked during periods ofgeneral tor abuse. Mailing tor at freenode dot net with your nickand a password hash signedtogether. The required hash can be generated with either

on irc: /quote makepass <password>

at a shell prompt: mkpasswd -H md5

echo '<nick> <passwordhash>' | gpg --gnupg -sea -r 035D6B1D

We have to have a copy of your public key in order to verify the signature, so make sure to include a copy if it's not available on the keyserver network.

Latencies are improving all the time and can be quite reasonable. You can always find a pointer to our Tor hidden service in freenode.net DNS, in an unresolved CNAME record, irc.tor.freenode.net, which can be retrieved, for example, via the *nix shell command:

dig  +short  irc.tor.freenode.net  cname

If your IRC client can handle socks5 with remote dns, you can just connect to the .onion address directly. Otherwise, use Tor's "mapaddress" feature to fake it. (We do not recommend that you use Privoxy with irssi.It's unnecessary. Just use the 'mapaddress' approach and torify irssi to start it up.) Add a line to yourtorrc,as in this example:

mapaddress  10.40.40.40  mejokbp2brhw4omd.onion
mapaddress  10.40.40.41  5t7o4shdbhotfuzp.onion

Be sure to HUP (reload) Tor if you change your torrc. After you've made the change, just connect your torified IRC client to the IP you specified in your mapaddress statement for thefreenodeservice. Tor will do the conversion for you internally and you'll connect to freenode. In addition to providing location privacy, the Tor hidden service gives you end-to-end encryption, providing benefits similar to those of ircs / irc-ssl.