My favourite chat client is irssi, anyone who likes command line and shells will love irssi, it is aso a great tool for IRC operators not only users. Some IRC networks offer you a secure SSL chat but you will need to specify the port for this, the most common ports in IRC  for secure [...]

If you need to choose a password there is a Unix program called mkpasswd that will help you choose a strong one. Some examples: mkpasswd –char=10 This will generate a 10 char random password. You can also try: mkpasswd -s “insertwordhere” This will take the characters from the entered word, and create a password from [...]