SSL ircd

[Neil Ford]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:03:00AM +0100, Dan Cuthbert wrote:
> Hiya all
> 
> Does anyone know of a working\decent ircd that uses SSL?
> can anyone give me any pointers to one?
> 
IRC is inherintly insecure, why would you want an ircd that used SSL? I can
imagine a need if yo wanted to run a private IRC server but then the way to do
it is either to tunnel the connections over ssh or to ssh to the machine 
runnig the ircd and only allow localhost connections.

Neil.