privmsg.chat

Connecting

ircs://privmsg.chat:6697. TLS and SASL EXTERNAL are required. There is no process to register an account as your TLS client certificate fingerprint is your identity. The client certificate is required to have a subjectAltName. The below command will generate an acceptable certificate.

openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout privmsg.pem -nodes -out privmsg.pem -sha256 -days 365 -subj '/' -addext 'subjectAltName = DNS:example.com'

As your certificate is your identity and all peers must update their configuration whenever your certificate changes, you may wish to extend the certificate's valid period. However, at present the certificate validity period is not checked.

Usage

Before you can chat with a peer, you must mutally ACCEPT each other.

ACCEPT <nick> <fingerprint>

Since connections are identified via fingerprint, on accept you specify a nick for your peer. You may rename a peer via ACCEPTing the same fingerprint with a new nick. You may also remove a peer from your accept list.

ACCEPT -<nick>

Server

privmsg.chat runs the privmsg IRCd.