### Verifying Tor TLS connections
-**A Tor hidden service name securely identifies the service you are connecting to. Verifying the TLS server certificate is strickly-speaking unnecessary while using the hidden service.** Nonetheless the following methods can be used to verify the hidden service's TLS server certificate.
+A Tor hidden service name securely identifies the service you are connecting to. Verifying the TLS server certificate is strickly-speaking unnecessary while using the hidden service. Nonetheless the following methods can be used to verify the hidden service's TLS server certificate.
-The best way to ensure the TLS server-side certificate successfully validates is to add the following fragment to your `torrc` configuration file and configure your client to connect to `zettel.freenode.net`. The TLS server certificate used by the hidden service will validate using this hostname.
+The best way to ensure the TLS server-side certificate successfully validates is to add the following fragment to your `torrc` configuration file and configure your client to connect to `zettel.freenode.net` via Tor. The TLS server certificate used by the hidden service will validate using this hostname.
# torrc snippet:
MapAddress zettel.freenode.net ajnvpgl6prmkb7yktvue6im5wiedlz2w32uhcwaamdiecdrfpwwgnlqd.onion