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We should definitely do a better job explaining this.

Regarding security, one thing to be aware of is that iroh connections are just standard QUIC connections secured using standard TLS with the (also standard) raw public keys in TLS extension.

We don't roll our own crypto. What little non-standard crypto we had previously was removed on the path to iroh 1.0.

So iroh connections are just as secure as the QUIC/TLS connections your browser makes to your banking app. Whenever there are some new concerns like for example post quantum security, we can benefit from industry standards.

E.g. we do already support optional post quantum key exchange to secure connections.

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-post-quantum-handshakes

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