Re: the right ircd for Blitzed

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:19:15 -0400, Kari <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have to agree here. Personally, I'd really like to be able to connect
> to the network using SSL. I cringe every time I send my nickserv or oper
> password over a plain connection. If we were to make this feature
> widespread and easy to use, I can see a lot of end users picking it up,
> especially since the newest version of mIRC supports it.

If you're that concerned, you can always ssh tunnel your IRC
connection, but seriously who's going to bother sniffing for IRC
passwords. I'd consider it being 1 in a million chance for someone at
your ISP to do so.

> 
> IPv6 isn't as big of an issue, as everyone who has an IPv6 address also
> has an IPv4 one. We need to plan for the day when this isn't the case,
> but for now it isn't as important.