Just have a little switch in the CN: "Secure SS: On/Off"

If on, then only people on your corp get your SS msgs.

This would mean that others could still sweep thru, or
even monitor SS, but they'd never get anything if that
was turned on.

Seems the simplest way to implement a feature like
this.

Similar to the feature SWATH has for encrypting messages? If On = Encrypted , Off = Normal

Good things come from discussion

Sounds good to me. The features we currently have are inefficient. For instance:
1) Private hails are private, but if turned on, anyone can spam it, and this really isn't a corporate option.
2) Corporate memos go to the general mail file and get l mixed in all sorts of garbage messages.
3) Subspace channels aren't secure even with 60,000 channels.

The only option we currently have for secure corporate communications is SS with some sort of mesage scrambler and that would require all the helpers/proxies to be in sync with each other. Also any encoded messages can be descrambled by anyone that has seen the code.

Well, could make encryption use a dual-key system.
Since all codes would be encrypted using individual
public keys, no third party would be able to eavesdrop
even if they knew each player's public key.

But that's a lot work, and its just one more thing that
separates scripters from non-script users. Might as
well make it a simple server-side option and save
everyone the trouble.

Already brought up.
JP says SS Crawling is part of the game.

Shrug. Things like this may be subject to change.

You wanted Crawling. You used Crawling. Live with it.

Wouldn't it be more productive to open it for discussion and if enough people are for it, maybe JP will reconsider. Nothing is set in stone until the engraver is done and cleaned up. He is still working on the software so keep tossing ideas out you never know what one might get in next release.

LOL, actually we used spamming.

Was pretty dang funny, too.

And I'm happy with things being the way they are,
but if others have a problem with it then I'm fine
with changing it too. JP will do what he feels is best.

And I will do what I feel best also. It is a Universal Truth.

This is the Third thread on Boo! Crawling in Beta. If people want to waste there time "spamming" All qss to an empty channel and call it spamming not Crawling then WHy should I care?

A few questions...

The idea proposed is having the ability to have a Corporate Sub Space channel specific to that corporation that is created, correct?

How would it be setup? Would it be auto assigned by the game itself, or would the corp CEO set this up?

Would this affect current helpers like SWATH?

I assume the advantage to this is to prevent another player/corp from gaining access to your SS channel and "gaining" anything "useful" or spoofing bots/scripts. Are there other advantages?

What are the disadvantages to having this feature?

The disadvantage according JP is it would interfere in the game.
Crawling is part of the game. His words not mine.
You would also be locked to a channel and couldn't move to another for cashing.
Depending on how it was coded but it isnt so its not so this is moot.

2 other threads on this already. John has already ruled on this idea.

If you were locked to a channel, then it basically replaces the current CN4 setting for SS, correct? Or could you not have two settings (regular SS and your Secure Corp Channel), and toggle between which one is active?

I may have missed the other 2 threads to see John's responses. I'll search them out and read up on them.