toxygen/docs/ToxygenWeechat.md

Toxygen Weechat

You can have a weechat console so that you can have IRC and jabber in a window as well as Tox. There's a copy of qweechat in thirdparty/qweechat backported to PyQt5 and integrated into toxygen. Follow the normal instructions for adding a relay to weechat

/relay add ipv4.ssl.weechat 9000
/relay start ipv4.ssl.weechat

or

/set relay.network.ipv6 off
/set relay.network.password password
/relay add weechat 9000
/relay start weechat

and use the Plugins/Weechat Console to start weechat under Toxygen. Then use the File/Connect menu item of the Console to connect to weechat.

Weechat has a Jabber plugin to enable XMPP:

/python load jabber.el
/help jabber

so you can have Tox, IRC and XMPP in the same application!

Creating servers for IRC over Tor

Create a proxy called tor

/proxy add tor socks5 127.0.0.1 9050

It should now show up in the list of proxies.

/proxy list

/nick NickName

TLS certificates

Create a Self-signed Certificate

Choose a NickName you will identify as.

Create a directory for your certificates ~/.config/weechat/ssl/ and make a subdirectory for each server ~/.config/weechat/ssl/irc.oftc.net/

Change to the server directory and use openssl to make a keypair and answer the questions:

openssl req -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout NickName.key -x509 -days 3650 -out NickName.cer
chmod 400 NickName.key

We now combine certificate and key to a single file NickName.pem

cat NickName.cer NickName.key > NickName.pem
chmod 400 NickName.pem

Do this for each server you want to connect to, or just use one for all of them.

Libera TokTok channel

The main discussion forum for Tox is the #TokTok channel on libera.

https://mox.sh/sysadmin/secure-irc-connection-to-freenode-with-tor-and-weechat/ We have to create an account without Tor, this is a requirement to use TOR: Connect to irc.libera.chat without Tor and register

/msg NickServ identify NickName password
/msg NickServ REGISTER mypassword mycoolemail@example.com
/msg NickServ SET PRIVATE ON

You'll get an email with a registration code. Confirm registration after getting the mail with the code:

/msg NickServ VERIFY REGISTER NickName code1235678

Libera has an onion server so we can map an address in tor. Add this to your /etc/tor/torrc

MapAddress palladium.libera.chat libera75jm6of4wxpxt4aynol3xjmbtxgfyjpu34ss4d7r7q2v5zrpyd.onion

Or without the MapAddress just use libera75jm6of4wxpxt4aynol3xjmbtxgfyjpu34ss4d7r7q2v5zrpyd.onion as the server address below, but set tls_verify to off.

Define the server in weechat https://www.weechat.org/files/doc/stable/weechat_user.en.html#irc_sasl_authentication

/server remove libera
/server add libera palladium.libera.chat/6697 -tls -tls_verify
/set irc.server.libera.ipv6 off
/set irc.server.libera.proxy tor
/set irc.server.libera.username NickName
/set irc.server.libera.password password
/set irc.server.libera.nicks NickName
/set irc.server.libera.tls on
/set irc.server.libera.tls_cert "${weechat_config_dir}/ssl/libera.chat/NickName.pem"

/set irc.server.libera.sasl_mechanism ecdsa-nist256p-challenge
/set irc.server.libera.sasl_username "NickName"
/set irc.server.libera.sasl_key "${weechat_config_dir}/ssl/libera.chat/NickName.pem"

Disconnect and connect back to the server.

/disconnect libera
/connect libera

/msg nickserv identify password NickName

oftc.net

To use oftc.net over tor, you need to authenticate by SSL certificates.

Define the server in weechat

/server remove irc.oftc.net
/server add OFTC irc.oftc.net/6697  -tls -tls_verify
/set irc.server.OFTC.ipv6 off
/set irc.server.OFTC.proxy tor
/set irc.server.OFTC.username NickName
/set irc.server.OFTC.nicks NickName
/set irc.server.OFTC.tls on
/set irc.server.OFTC.tls_cert "${weechat_config_dir}/ssl/irc.oftc.chat/NickName.pem"

# Disconnect and connect back to the server. 
/disconnect OFTC
/connect OFTC

You must be identified in order to validate using certs

/msg nickserv identify password NickName

To allow NickServ to identify you based on this certificate you need to associate the certificate fingerprint with your nick. To do this issue the command cert add to Nickserv (try /msg nickserv helpcert).

/msg nickserv cert add

Privacy

Add somes settings bellow to weechat. Detail from faq.

/set irc.server_default.msg_part ""
/set irc.server_default.msg_quit ""
/set irc.ctcp.clientinfo ""
/set irc.ctcp.finger ""
/set irc.ctcp.source ""
/set irc.ctcp.time ""
/set irc.ctcp.userinfo ""
/set irc.ctcp.version ""
/set irc.ctcp.ping ""
/plugin unload xfer
/set weechat.plugin.autoload "*,!xfer"