Tor is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication.The name derived from the acronym for the original software project name "The Onion Router". Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer overlay network consisting of more than seven thousand relays to conceal a user's location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis.

Most of TOR relays block IRC exit ports (6667, 6697, etc) because people abuse it for spambots/clones. You have greater success using SSL on port 443 (which is a standard HTTP SSL port) and is allowed by most TOR exit nodes. ConfigExamples/Strange/TorifiedSquid - Squid Web Proxy Wiki Leaving the bridges configuration of your choice. I strongly recommend to read the Tor manuals carefully before this. Bridges can be get from here or via e-mail in most hardest case. When finished, run Tor and check tor.log for errors. Important notice. Starting from Tor 0.3.2 you can use it directly as HTTPS tunneling proxy. For this, you can How to disable HTTPS on a particular page? - Security

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Tor will give you a degree of lack of clarity by using a 128-piece AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). There has been some exchange about whether the NSA can translate this code, and the proper reaction is …

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