Installing and Updating Cygwin Packages Installing and Updating Cygwin for 32-bit versions of Windows Run setup-x86.exe any time you want to update or install a Cygwin package for 32-bit windows. The signature for setup-x86.exe can be used to verify the validity of this binary using this public key. Installing and Updating Cygwin for 64-bit versions Read more » 

A certificate signed by a trusted root CA will work, but is unnecessary. A self-signed certificate can be created for free, with OpenSSL. If a client certificate is self-signed, ircd will only verify that it is not expired. If the client certificate is not self-signed, then it must verify completely, as openssl verify would do. Read more » 

Make a cert if you haven’t already. XChat does not support passphrase-protected client certificates, so make sure you specify the -nodes option. Copy the cert you made into your ~/.xchat2 directory, C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\X-Chat2 directory, or from wherever XChat stores user settings. The certificate filename must match the name of the network, so you should probably name Read more » 

Copy the cert and key that you made into the ~/.config/quassel-irc.org/certs directory. Quassel will not use the PEM file. Make sure the filesystem permissions restrict read access for the files to just you. mv mynick.cert ~/.config/quassel-irc.org/certs mv mynick.key ~/.config/quassel-irc.org/certs Click Settings and Configure Quassel. In the IRC section of settings, click Identities. Then click the Read more »