SpartaX

No SSL?

Asked by Alexandria Marie Wolcott

In reviewing the blueprints related to SSL, there are a lot of "It's useless" type comments. Why exactly do you take such an antissl stance for the coding of SpartaX?

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Alexandria Marie Wolcott (chazz) said : 		#1

Sparta Project, as well as Chazz Wolcott (Lead developer of SpartaX), agree that SSL is only actually useful on IRC in the following scenario:

*) All clients connecting to the IRC network are using SSL
*) All servers on the IRC network are using SSL
*) All clients either do not log, or are encrypting their logs
*) All IRCds and related software are encrypting their logs, or not logging

Since none of the members of Sparta Project have EVER seen a network which fits the above scenario, we have taken the stance that SSL is mostly pointless.