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Colori · Veteran Joined: 11 Jul 2007 Posts: 132

So...It's our job to come up with something safe to talk through? Hm...I'm not sure.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:34 pm

Twee · Decorated Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 157 Location: sweden

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:35 pm

cissmiace

Oh blimey, now I have to go and read all through the Prophecy of stars thread to understand whats been going on.

Are the rest of you that were contacted for this game also involved in the Stars one? Because I wasnt =\ Unless they just contacted me because they wanted more players

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:44 pm

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For Prophecy of Stars there's a summary in the middle of this page:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20147&start=75
Start from there on down.

I am looking for something similar for Gabriel Lawson

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:48 pm

Uberg33k

Esteed

What about an AIM chatroom for a safe place? Or IRC?

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:22 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:28 pm

Colori · Veteran Joined: 11 Jul 2007 Posts: 132

Also, for those of you who don't want to have to go through all of colby's blog, on page two of the aforementioned thread i've summarized all the posts except for the newest one or two, i think.

EDIT: I have them all.

jabroni

There are also self-destructing emails but it would be hard to have a long conversation. Willselfdestruct.com is one of the sites.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:29 pm

Esteed

Well, yes, but physical letters would be a bit impractical, in game terms. Phone calls, yeah, that's a possibility.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:30 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:32 pm

Mikeyj

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:42 pm

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redct · Entrenched Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 1233

Ideas for "secure" communication:

A. OTR Chats. These are actually secure (they use a plugin to your IM client and encrypt them with AES and SHA-1. It'd take forever for even a real government agency to crack.

B. Something semi-private: eg, no one knows about them. I could set up an IRC server here on my computer and just tell people playing the game.
(yay for Linux skills)
C. Private website/forum (password protected). I could create this and host it too if wanted.

now, I have to go check up on Prophecy of Stars..

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:12 pm

MotaHed

There are programs that easily encode text into images and require password to unencode. Just an idea. They theoretically come out if de-stegged BUT they're still encoded so you can't break in easily.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:39 pm

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Sorry for being OOG here, but since this is "only a game" there is no need for military strength encryption, so let's not get too involved and instead suggest something that can easily be encrypted and decrypted. Standard Vigenere is good enough
http://sharkysoft.com/misc/vigenere/
and if we want to be all secretive we can use
http://mozaiq.org/encrypt/
for steganography on top of that. Either solution does not require installing additional software.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:46 pm