As requested by @pry0cc, well, not really a request… more like I threw out there a idea and pry volunteered me to do a tutorial. Ok, fine, I guess. Anyways, with that all being said and done as the name suggests this is how to securely connect to IRC using Hexchat and ToR. It isn’t that complicated, but I will try to explain (or lack of explaining) how to do it. Basically we will start the ToR service on our Linux box and then we will use that to connect to it via our hexchat client. Now here goes my ‘tutorial’.
First off, we need all the necessary packages. ToR and Hexchat. On Debian it’s as simple as:
sudo apt install tor hexchat
Now with that outta the way… lets modify the torrc file just ever so slightly.
type in a terminal:
sudo nano -w /etc/tor/torrc
You should now see the config for tor (?). Uncomment the line:
#SOCKSPort 9050 # Default: Bind to localhost:9050 for local connections.
And press CTRL + X and hit Y to save it.
In the same terminal, type in:
sudo service tor start
This’ll start the tor service. Now we must configure hexchat to connect to tor (127.0.0.1:9050). In hexchat, select ‘Settings’ and then ‘Preferences’. Hit the option ‘Network setup’. Now, in hostname type in: 127.0.0.1 and in port type in: 9050. Change the ‘Type:’ to Socks5 and don’t change ‘Use proxy for:’ option. Should look something like this:
Note: For some reason you must be already connected to hexchat in order to access the preferences thanks to the default setting of displaying the network list. This of course can be disabled.
Now that we got our proxy setup lets connect to 0x00sec at irc.0x00sec.org and port 6697 with SSL enabled and ‘Accept all SSL Certificates’.
I hope this helps with keeping you anonymous and I do apologize if this was quick and dirty ‘tut’. 
–Techno Forg–