Using SSL to connect to maddshark If your feeling paranoid you can use SSL to connect to Maddshark on port 7029.
Clients we know work are:
[mIRC] (http://www.mirc.com) [XChat] (http://www.xchat.org) [HexChat] (https://hexchat.github.io/) mIRC Instructions /server -m -e irc.maddshark.com 7029 Or
/server -m irc.maddshark.com +7029 XChat & HexChat Instructions /server -ssl irc.maddshark.com 7029 Please Note We do not use a valid SSL certificate, so you must set your client to accept invalid ones