Poker Rooms and Encryption

Posted by Bill @ 10:40 am

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The UK and Ireland Poker Blog has an interesting bit of news people may want take note of. It seems several poker rooms store your username and password unencrypted in the registry on your computer. That’s not too big of an issue if you’re on a single user machine but when you introduce the possibility of a virus or trojan horse program that could swipe your info and begin making cashouts on your account the issue takes on a whole different level of severity.

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Hi Bill,

I was unnable to reproduce the situation described on that blog. I had installed some clients of the ipoker network, and in each case the password is encrypted (not the username).

Simon added these pithy words on Jun 27 06 at 6:46 am

I tried it with noble poker and cdpoker.. both were vulnerable (last month).. Hopefully they will get their house in order (or have already done so).

cheers for the link Bill :)

uk & Ireland poker blogger added these pithy words on Jul 02 06 at 6:13 am

hmm - I just installed another iPoker client [poker77O] and low and behold - Plaintext Password.

time for an online petition? (what do you think Bill? - It is also bound to lead to visitors to the hosting site:) )

uk & Ireland poker blogger added these pithy words on Jul 05 06 at 8:15 am

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