no, the reasoning is because it's more than two people, any third person can break the security by accepting an invalid cert, and the others who were careful ha

no, the reasoning is because it's more than two people, any third person can break the security by accepting an invalid cert, and the others who were careful have no way of knowing that their communications are compromised. given IRC is mostly about channels, this renders TLS mostly pointless for IRC. (TLS works fine with two endpoints communicating directly... mostly, it's still a kitchen sink protocol that probably needs replacing)