Encrypted Messages

[Denelo]

I agree with Dab, encryption should only be used for things that are highly sensitive. The reason there's been so much lately is because of the March Conspiricy (Even though it's april now... hm.). Lot's of top secret info going on atm.

[fatbuddha]

I agree with Dab, encryption should only be used for things that are highly sensitive. The reason there's been so much lately is because of the March Conspiricy (Even though it's april now... hm.). Lot's of top secret info going on atm.

I really have no stake in this since I just play discovery on a private lan server but this thread caught my eye since I do have lots of RL background with encrypted communications I thought I would toss in my unwanted 2 cents.

The reason why organizations and countries stopped encrypting "only the important stuff" shortly after they decided that encrypting the important stuff was a good idea is it allowed for C3I shaping. In other words once encrypted communications starts the enemy knows something is up. More importantly once shaping is analyzed eg mapping communications, its no longer important to know what the msg said. Just blow up the buildings that act as encrypted communications hubs. Now nearly everything is encrypted in some form. even a large percentage of multinational orgs (companies, ngos, etc) encrypt all communications.

Anyway since I'm a fan of RP'ing I offer this suggestion if you guys really want to make it interesting just decide on a standard encryption application to be used server wide and then severely limit the limit the key length and bit strength. That way your opponents can take a shot at cracking the code. Change the key once a week or month or whatever for added drama.

If im way out of line on this just ignore me. As I mentioned this was just something that caught my eye.

[Nightfall]

.-- . .-.. .-.. --..-- .- ... ..-. .- .-. .- ... .. ' -- -.-. --- -. -.-. . .-. -. . -.. , SSBjYW4gdHlwZSB3aGF0ZXZlcg== 65 6e 63 72 79 70 74 69 6f 6e 20 79 6f 75 20 77 61 6e 74 20 73 6f 20 49 27 6d 20 6e 6f 74 20 74 6f 6f 20 61 6e 6e 6f 79 65 64 20 49 20 6a 75 73 74 20 73 65 6c 65 63 74 20 74 68 65 20 74 65 78 74 20 61 6e 64 20 64 65 63 72 79 70 74 2e

Translation:
Well, as far as I'm concerned, I can type whatever encryption you want so I'm not too annoyed I just select the text and decrypt. Typed in 3 different encryptions:P

Continuing:
A useful tool I came across since the SCRA's xxxxxxxx encryption:P



edit: oops! thought you don't use that anymore.

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[Dab]

Well AW uses a bit of a short key on ours, so if you knew what you were doing, you could likely crack it. But I don't think we have people here that can. We also only use it for important information because we have ALWAYS talked about things we don't want others to know about. But we used it on forums before those forums died for who knows why.

Besides, making an enemy, or even someone neutral, suspicious of our use of it could be quite useful.

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[Koolmo]

Night, you wanna dit out our code asap please? I'd prefer that we can keep using it without 99% of the server reading it.

EDIT: m'yes, thankee. We'll use it just before we move in for the final blow...

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[BestFlyerHere]

Oho!!!! I get it. You could use different consecutive encryptions for the really important stuff. So, we could use one, then type in another!!!! Very nice....

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