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Add some background on cert validation.
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Background on SSL certification validation
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to do
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It is often believed using SSL magically makes impossible any attack on your
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connection (from the bot to the server).
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It is true that it prevents passive eavesdropping, but other attack methods
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are still possible.
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The main one involves man-in-the-middle, ie. someone acting as a proxy between
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you (your bot, in that case) and the IRC network.
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If certificates are not validated, the attacker can allow you to connect
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to itself using their own SSL certificate, and you would never know about it.
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This is why it is important to check the SSL certificate of the server
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you connect to: an attacker cannot spoof a certificate, or the trust of
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a Certificate Authority in a network's certificates.
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Of course, this assumes there is no bug in your SSL library, the network's,
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and the protocols involved.
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Certificate validation in Limnoria
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