[tor-talk] can't enable SSL with IRSSI over TOR

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On 06/05/12 18:02, Shane wrote:

>> There's no point in adding a layer of SSL over hidden services; the
>> connection is already encrypted end to end.
> 
> I thought it was more like proxy-to-proxy leaving a small in-the-clear
> gaps on the ends.

I guess so. There's a chance that the Tor daemon is running on a
different machine to the IRC server and somewhere between those two
machines the network is compromised.

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