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Apr 8, 2001, 10:56am

I think aw should have a scroll down box to hold ppw in. Would come in handy
for all of us who have multiple ppl that we need to use the rights of :o)

Apr 8, 2001, 11:16am

.... and bears the risk that someone doesn't take care and gives away
his aworld.ini with 100 ppw's in it

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Apr 8, 2001, 5:09pm

Keep it in a seperate file?

Apr 8, 2001, 6:49pm

Seperate file in a seperate directory with the hidden attribute :)
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Apr 8, 2001, 7:15pm

A number of people now have their Windows set to show hidden files.

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Apr 8, 2001, 7:37pm

The ones who are likely to send a file containing 100 ppw's to a stranger are NOT the same ones as the ones who are likely to know
they can set windows to show hidden files :oP

Fox Mc Cloud

"tony m" <tony at vrunited.itgo.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3ad0d4ed at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> A number of people now have their Windows set to show hidden files.
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Apr 8, 2001, 9:11pm

Precisely. In fact, even after YEARS of having hidden files visible, I still forget to turn it back on after a simple reformat for
at least a few hours, if not weeks. (Reformats are regular maintinence on my machines will less than 2 gigs of disk space)
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Apr 8, 2001, 10:28pm

Duh, so easy, I didn't think, off course you're right - second
security step would be to crypt it in a way that the username you
stored it with is needed to decrypt.

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Apr 8, 2001, 11:08pm

if it was encrypted it wouldn't make any differance.. a person could still load it in their aw and aw would decrypt it.. anwho..
what i do is tgram ppw's to myself so i can just search through to the one i need to use.. *sigh* so much controversy.. so many easy
solutions.

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Apr 8, 2001, 11:28pm

It would at least require that he uses the nickname of the one he got
the INI file from, if they included that name in the encryption. A
little more security.


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Apr 8, 2001, 11:44pm

wouldnt work- you can only be on one priv at a time anyway... just make sure you
save the telegrams of those ppws you need

[View Quote] > I think aw should have a scroll down box to hold ppw in. Would come in handy
> for all of us who have multiple ppl that we need to use the rights of :o)

Apr 8, 2001, 11:51pm

A simple form of encryption would take the PPW, convert it into a string of numbers (A=1 B=2 Z=26) and the numbers in the PPW into
letters (1=A 2=B) and then perform the same conversion on the screenname of the owner, throw out spaces, add together the numbers
for the user's name and add the total to each entry in the converted PPW, except for the letters which would remain the same (these
were originally numbers). To decrypt the conversion would be performed on the user's name again and then subtracted. This is then
converted to original form and submitted to the uniserver for approval. Of course, all numeric PPWs would be frowned upon because
the encryption doesn't work for them.
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Apr 9, 2001, 12:43am

ummmmm, he's thinking like log off one ppw, *select another*.... get it
yet?

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