diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 8245627e6..a46ff8096 100755
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+2017-04-25 DariusIII
+	* Fix: Fix SSL connections to USP and IRC
 2017-04-24 DariusIII
 	* Chg: Declare return types in AniDB class
 	* Chg: Chage some if-else loop logic in TMDB class
diff --git a/libs/PEAR/Net_NNTP/NNTP/Protocol/Client.php b/libs/PEAR/Net_NNTP/NNTP/Protocol/Client.php
index 97d6be511..6b8d53ef7 100644
--- a/libs/PEAR/Net_NNTP/NNTP/Protocol/Client.php
+++ b/libs/PEAR/Net_NNTP/NNTP/Protocol/Client.php
@@ -498,7 +498,6 @@ class Net_NNTP_Protocol_Client extends PEAR
 				$port = is_null($port) ? 119 : $port;
 				break;
 
-			case 'sslv3':
 			case 'ssl':
 			case 'tls':
 				$transport = $encryption;
@@ -506,14 +505,16 @@ class Net_NNTP_Protocol_Client extends PEAR
 				break;
 
 			default:
-				$message = '$encryption parameter must be either tcp, tls, ssl or sslv3.';
+				$message = '$encryption parameter must be either tcp, tls, ssl.';
 				trigger_error($message, E_USER_ERROR);
 				return $this->throwError($message);
 		}
 
 		// Attempt to connect to usenet.
-		$socket = @stream_socket_client(
-			$transport . '://' . $host . ':' . $port, $errorNumber, $errorString, $timeout
+		$socket = stream_socket_client(
+			$transport . '://' . $host . ':' . $port,
+			$errorNumber, $errorString, $timeout, STREAM_CLIENT_CONNECT,
+			stream_context_create(nntmux\utility\Utility::streamSslContextOptions())
 		);
 
 		if ($socket === false) {
diff --git a/nntmux/IRCClient.php b/nntmux/IRCClient.php
index ff826f81f..b12be2d8b 100755
--- a/nntmux/IRCClient.php
+++ b/nntmux/IRCClient.php
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 <?php
 namespace nntmux;
 
+use nntmux\utility\Utility;
+
 /**
  * Basic IRC client for fetching IRCScraper.
  *
@@ -662,7 +664,9 @@ class IRCClient
 			$this->_remote_socket_string,
 			$error_number,
 			$error_string,
-			$this->_remote_connection_timeout
+			$this->_remote_connection_timeout,
+			STREAM_CLIENT_CONNECT,
+			stream_context_create(Utility::streamSslContextOptions(true))
 		);
 
 		if ($socket === false) {