Irssi

Irssi is a free IRC client on command line based. In addition to the IRC protocol is supported by plugins also SILC, ICB and ICQ and XMPP / Jabber. Irssi is licensed under the GPL and runs on Unix and Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

In contrast to most other IRC clients, he does not use graphical interface. Since a large part of the source code is independent of the character-based user interface, but there are also graphical frontends like Irssix and MacIrssi for Mac OS X. Irssi has a perlbasierte scripting engine that allows an extension of the core functionality.

Means FiSH or OTR plugin it is possible to encrypt communications on IRC.

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