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I am also very interested in proof of this. So far we have no evidence of mass downgrades on TLS, its not in any of the leaked docs. Tempora is a GCHQ/NSA passive capture technology.

Edit: Are you sure it isn't an old version of OpenSSL on your host? Last time i checked most IRCd's did SSLv3 (IRC crypto is awful btw.. stop using it)

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This is something I am certain of. They were running exactly the same software, I was running FreeBSD 10.0 at the time with libressl 2.1.1 and irc was using gnutls 2.8.1

I'm going through my IRC logs now and this was my response to the same question. Regardless I was using the same server with the same versions and different cipher sets and a different port with the same software and getting inconsistent results _only_ when the path went via the UK.

The same connection from Haarlem, NL to Sydney, AU was not affected by this inconsistency.

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