When I search for "public key Trinity Desktop Environment" or the like, I get nothing useful. I assume that this is something different from the trinity keyring for the package repositories. I tried to connect to #trinity-desktop on IRC (using their onion link), but I get this message: [15:26] [Info] Looking for server libera75jm6of4wxpxt4aynol3xjmbtxgfyjpu34ss4d7r7q2v5zrpyd.onion:6697... [15:26] [Info] Server found, connecting... [15:26] [Info] Connected; logging in... [15:26] [Notice] -palladium.libera.chat- *** Ident disabled, not checking ident [15:26] [Notice] -palladium.libera.chat- *** Looking up your hostname... [15:26] [Notice] -palladium.libera.chat- *** Couldn't look up your hostname [15:26] [Notice] -palladium.libera.chat- *** Notice -- Public-key (NOT password) SASL authentication is required to connect to the Tor onion service. Please see https://libera.chat/guides/connect#accessing-liberachat-via-tor for configuration assistance. [15:26] [error] Closing Link: gateway/tor-sasl/account (Public-key (NOT password) SASL authentication is required to connect to the Tor onion service. Please see https://libera.chat/guides/connect#accessing-liberachat-via-tor for configuration assistance.) I did already look up these pages: https://libera.chat/guides/connect#accessing-liberachat-via-tor https://libera.chat/guides/certfp.html but I am still missing something here. If I recall, no password is required for the IRC group, and I followed what Nik and Slavek said, SSL connection on port 6697. #trinity-desktop irc.libera.chat:6697 Also, do I need to register my user name somewhere? The default default is my own system user name, which I don't want, so I created a new identity. Here is their onion address, if anybody else wants to try it: libera75jm6of4wxpxt4aynol3xjmbtxgfyjpu34ss4d7r7q2v5zrpyd.onion Any help is appreciated. Bill