Downloads

Root Certificate
MD5: de8bc0a708e6a38ee7bc8bc07a72f438
SHA1: 0e33fb1d750c5a7ffa679037831141c59f4e5065

Certificate Revocation List (CRL)
MD5: 09bdd053a136947dfd5825b878270258
SHA1: 4ec475c0447db1b060f3d19eb0de84ab158248ad

What does this all mean?

All VoidNet servers can be accessed via SSL. This means that the communication between your computer and our servers is secure. Find out more about SSL at Wikipedia.

Our servers are also linked via SSL. This means that an eavesdropper listening in on our upstream connection will only have access to an encrypted message stream.

Okay, so how do I use it?

Depending on your IRC client, you may have to import our root certificate. The root certificate is used to validate server certificates. If your system does not recognize the root certificate, it will reject our server certificates.

There is no harm in importing our root certificate. Be sure to verify that the fingerprint of the certificate that you download matches the fingerprint listed above (you may wish to load this page via secure HTTP to ensure that the fingerprint is not modified in transit.)

For maximum security, you should import both our root certificate and our CRL. The CRL is a list of certificates which are no longer valid.

Importing certificates and certificate revocation lists is beyond the scope of this document. Please consult your operating system documentation for more information.

What about non SSL users?

You may wish to keep non SSL users out of your channel to prevent eavesdroppers. VoidNet servers have been patched to provide an additional channel mode, +S, which does just that.

I have more questions!

Feel free to ask for help in the #voidnet channel.