Date of creation
23/01/832

BRIGADE ACCESS SYSTEM
AUTHOR: JIMMY MANDERSON
FOR READ ONLY

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INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION

The use of encryption and encryption systems in the Order, as in any other organization, goes back a long way. Corporations use encryption to protect their communications from outside interference and to prevent corporate espionage. Militaries use protection to avoid espionage as we know it. Intelligence agencies, including the Order, use all sorts of means, sometimes even too primitive, to preserve their data.

When the question of encryption came up, we tackled it rather tightly and applied the methods of Overwatch and other Order units that agreed to give us the necessary codes. The goal was to create methods that would literally prevent third parties from getting in where they shouldn't. This manual is applicable to all Brigade Commanders and Commandants, to understand exactly how cipher keys are handled within our structure.

TEMPLATES AND CODES

Any information in the Brigade, whether reports or internal communications, comes from “templates” which in turn are coded in a certain way. Each template belongs to its own group, and the group itself has a universal access code for all templates in that group. The code is an electronic file that is only allowed to be transferred to another agent by direct transmission in open space or to make the transfer only in person. Code transfer is prohibited through systems, within the system itself, in short - over any distance greater than 1K.

Codes vary in their purpose, and some of them apply only to specific templates, not to the group as a whole. It should be noted that if you get an access code to work with the whole group of templates - you may have actual access to only a few templates. The rest of the templates may not be known to you, for one reason or another. This avoids situations where there is a leak in code transfer and third parties can gain unauthorized access to templates and work with them. To start working with any template from a set group, an agent needs to authorize in the Order neural-net, specifically in the Brigade neural-net. After that, he enters the necessary link to the desired template and applies the code to work with it. Step by step, this process looks as follows:

1. You get access to the template.
   
2. You're logged into the Order neural-net. After that, you'll be logged into the Brigade neural-net.
   
3. You get a code to access a specific template. This means that you can see the template itself.
   
4. Using the access code, you get access to work with the template.
   

As stated earlier, codes vary in their purpose, and therefore your options for working with the template may be quite different. Let's imagine that you have a “Group” of templates. This “Group” would have the following access codes:

• Access code “A1” - allows to use templates and send their filled variants through the specified channel.
  
• Access code “A2” - allows you not only to send messages according to a template, but also to view the history of your sent messages.
  
• Access code “A3” - allows you to view the history of all messages in the communication channel.
  
• Access code “A4” - has the same permissions as “A3”, but in this case you can also edit the template and delete any unauthorized messages.
  
• Access code “A5” - allows you to track the very fact of sending messages using the template. It does not give access to editing the template or viewing any message history. Typically used to track the transmission of messages outside the Brigade.
  
• Access code “A6” - it is allowed to use the specified template a limited number of times. Usually can be useful, if you suddenly need to give access to unauthorized person to something. Code “A6” can be granted by Commanders to lower ranks. As a rule, it is used here. In other cases, "A6" is used extremely rarely and only in emergency situations, basically this key is dusting and sometimes waits for months or even for years.
  
• Code “A7” - absolutely full access to the template group, in every sense of that word.
  

It's not hard to guess that each template represents a different communication channel. As a rule, we rely on electronics, although we retain a printed version of each order or report. But access to these is extremely limited and can only be obtained with the unanimous permission of the Captain, at least one Commandant, and the Aspirant-Archivist. A good example of a standard template group that each new member of the Brigade has access to is this:

• [1] - Hades Brigade Internal Communications
  
• [2] - Hades Brigade Reporting Channel
  

That is, going back to the above key system, using key “A” will allow the agent to handle messages in both the first and second communication channels. Perhaps, some exception to the rule may be the internal communication channel - the agent will be able to see replies to its messages, but will not be able to reread its own messages.

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