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Jun 7, 2001, 1:56pm

I've heard that whispers and regular chat messages were encrypted before
being transmitted to others in AW, but are telegrams also encrypted
while in transit to AW's server? I know all telegrams are stored in an
AWCI owned server and then "sent" to the user whenever they come
on-line. But when someone sends a telegram, is it encrypted to both AW's
server and to the citizen in which it was sent to? I'm guessing (hoping)
that it is encrypted while being sent to AW's "t-gram" server, encrypted
when being sent to the citizen in which it was intended for, and then
the AW browser decrypts it so the citizen can read it. I'm too lazy to
go run a packetsniffer and find out. =) Can anyone shed any light on
this?

Builderz
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Jun 7, 2001, 2:26pm

why's this so important? one shouldn't send any confidential info trough AW
anyway.

KAH

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Jun 7, 2001, 4:51pm

I can't see any point to encrypting either the chat or telegram. Sounds like a big waste of CPU cycles.
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Jun 7, 2001, 6:01pm

I'm just curious about AW's security. Is there anything wrong with being
curious? I'm sure you've been curious numerous times while creating
bots, KAH. It seems that many companies and programmers either do too
little testing or seem to make too little effort in their program(s)
with regards to a security standpoint. I know people that send world
passwords, privilege passwords, etc. all the time via telegrams to other
citizens and was just wondering if messages being sent were encrypted in
some form instead of being sent in plain text.

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Jun 7, 2001, 6:11pm

I've received a response from Ima Genius (via telegram) and Emil
Djurberg (via e-mail) with an answer to my question. According to them,
all telegrams are encrypted when sent both to and from the world server.
They also told me some other interesting information ;). I thank them
both for their quick response and polite attitude.

Builderz
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Jun 7, 2001, 6:35pm

Whoops. Another posting mistake today (see the worldbuilders newsgroup
for my other mistake). I meant to say the "universe server" instead of
"world server."

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Jun 7, 2001, 7:00pm

well, if Roland & Co. bothered to encrypt chat and whispers, they truly
bothered to encrypt telegrams as well... personally, I don't encrypt files
that I send over networks with my apps, but none of my apps send
confidential info (well, they're not intended to at least) anyway...

KAH

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Jun 7, 2001, 9:11pm

AW isn't intended to send confidential info either :)

-Agent1

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