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TLS Forward Secrecy: Yes

Percentage of IRC SSL/TLS servers with Forward Secrecy enabled. Showing percentages for Hybrid servers only.

About this test result: Forward Secrecy enabled. This means that even if the TLS private keys are stolen from this server, past SSL/TLS traffic cannot be decrypted.
Note on statistics: there is a difference in the gathering of TLS servers between 2017-2019 and 2020-onwards, see SSL/TLS statistics on the data page.

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Percentage of IRC SSL/TLS servers with Forward Secrecy enabled. Showing percentages for Hybrid servers only.
Version Sep 2017Dec 2018Dec 2019Dec 2020Dec 2021Dec 2022Dec 2023
7.2 36% 41% 46% 59% 60% 62% 58%
8.0 88% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
8.1 38% 40% 50% 71% 75% 71% 80%
8.2 100% 99% 99% 99% 99% 99% 99%
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