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it's an IRC network aimed at gamers where 98% of channels are public and free for anyone to join without any form of authentication ever. so you'd be more accu
by wibbler2 11y ago
it's an IRC network aimed at gamers where 98% of channels are public and free for anyone to join without any form of authentication ever.
so you'd be more accurate to say it covers 98/100 of cases, and we leave the other 2 open
the main obstacle these days is that a secure PKI deployment for a network ran by 40 different companies with no legal structure is a hard problem, not the technical challenge of putting a cert in your ircd.conf
- Tehnix 11y agoWhile they are free to join the channels, I'd imagine a great deal of the users authenticate to the nickserver to avoid impersonation and to protect their nick. Without SSL, anybody on their network could potentially sniff their credentials with a lot less trouble than MITM'ing a SSL connection. So I'd say that it's just not for the 2% that are using the secure channels, but probably for the majority of the userbase that is active for more than a couple of sessions.
- blibble 11y agoQuakeNet has supported challenge response auth for more than 10 years, so this isn't a problem for anyone using that.