torchat - the Ruby implementation

You can find the official implementation here.

This aims to be a Ruby implementation and daemon to deal with a TorChat session even from outside or with other languages without having to implement the whole thing.

The main target is supporting TorChat in bitlbee.

The daemon to work needs a tor configured with a hidden service, you can leave it automatic by passing -t as an option or you can configure it yourself.

If you have an already created default TorChat session you just have to run torchatd -t, it will do all is needed, and you'll be able to connect to it on port 11110. If you use bitlbee you just have to add the account, you can also pass a password with -P password which will have to be the password you added the account with.

The daemon has a helper function to generate the needed tor configuration file based either on a YAML file or a TorChat configuration file.

Example of tor configuration generation:

$ torchatd -g -c etc/torchat.yml
SocksPort 11108

HiddenServiceDir hidden_service
HiddenServicePort 11009 127.0.0.1:11008

DataDirectory tor_data

AvoidDiskWrites 1
LongLivedPorts 11009
FetchDirInfoEarly 1
CircuitBuildTimeout 30
NumEntryGuards 6

If you want to contact me on torchat my id is 7acbk6jpofsanyfp.