[sudo-discuss] irc exclusion

i guess i can't participate in IRC anymore because i can't figure out how to configure SSL on irssi when i try to join sudoroom it says: 20:16 !wilhelm.freenode.net Only users using SSL could join this channel! so i googled SSL irssi and it says: https://freenode.net/kb/answer/irssi /network add -sasl_username <login> -sasl_password <password> -sasl_mechanism PLAIN freenode /server add -auto -net freenode -ssl -ssl_verify chat.freenode.net 6697 /save i'm guessing <login> and <password> are something that i have to type there but I don't know what they are or how to find them. So i can't be in IRC until i figure that out. as if IRC wasn't already exclusionary enough? -jake