IQ.ORG Cryptography Server

Julian Assange (proff@iq.org)
Sun, 7 Feb 1999 06:55:08 +1100 (EST)

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Welcome to the IQ.ORG Cryptography Server (aka Blinded)!

This is a private IRC server. It exists primarily as an encrypted live
communications network for the cryptography community and friends as
represented by the following mailinglists:

        aes@suburbia.net
        aucrypto@suburbia.net
        crypt@sun.soci.niu.edu
        cryptography@c2.net
        CodherPlunks@toad.com
        cypherpunks@algebra.com
        lacc@suburbia.net
        ssl-users@openssl.org
        ukcrypto@mailbase.ox.ac.uk

Notable channels:

        #crypto

To start up an unencrypted session:

Point your irc client at irc.iq.org port 70.

To start up an encrypted session:

mybox$ ssh -v -l irc -p 443 -L 6667:crypto.iq.org:70 irc.iq.org &
mybox$ irc myname localhost:6667

The above wrapped up into a shell script:

#!/bin/sh
ssh -v -l irc -p 443 -L 6667:crypto.iq.org:70 irc.iq.org irc &
sleep 15
irc -c '#crypto' $1 localhost:6667

If you add 'GatewayPorts yes' to your '~/.ssh/rc' file then other
hosts on your intranet (e.g windows boxes running mirc) can leverage
off the existing encrypted tunnel to crypto.iq.org, without the
need to run ssh on their own by using mybox:6667 as their irc
server.

Users showing up as connecting in from `crypto.iq.org' are using an
encrypted tunnel. Users from other hosts are not.

Depending on how leaky the individual irc client concerned is,
encrypted connections automatically have complete anonymity (for
the reason mentioned above). As DCC's take place directly between
clients, DCCs will not work between anonymous users.

-Julian <proff@iq.org> [on #crypto]

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