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at Absolute Poker
Absolute
Poker: Absolute Poker wants to reassure its players
of 100% integrity of the game of poker and the environment.
When the stakes are on the line, they have gone, and will
continue to do go to great lengths to do everything possible
to offer the most honest and fair games played on the web.
Absolute
Poker security and safety measures and
procedures are reviewed and updated regularly to ensure their
loyal players of Absolute Poker's moral beliefs. Three areas
of importance in the way of morality at Absolute Poker are
collusion, hackers, and card shuffling.
Security
Highlights
Software
Download
For "Internet Explorer" the validity of downloaded
executable is verified by the browser using our key and Thawte
certificate.
"For other browsers" they use 1024-bit RSA key and
a Thawte server certificate to protect their HTTPS web server
and download.
Software Security Built-In Features
"Our client software uses the certificates issued by
our own Certificate Authority (CA) to authenticate our servers.
Our CA certificate key is 1024 bit length.
Our client software uses the industry standard SSLv3 protocol.
It is configured to use RSA for authentication and key generation
and triple-DES (EDE3, in outer-CBC mode) for encryption. Currently,
we are using 512-bit RSA key, which according to [1] is sufficient
for short and medium-term (up to several years) secrets. As
we update server private keys every three months, we are secure
with a good safety margin. The use of Triple-DES EDE3 for
session encryption is considered even safer.
No private data, such as pocket cards, is ever transferred
to other players."
Collusion
"
Whether you play in brick & mortar card rooms or online,
poker players are always aware of the possibility of collusion.
Collusion is known as cheating and occurs when two of more
people at a table know what the other is holding in their
hands and work together to cheat others out of their money.
Collusion destroys the integrity of the whole industry not
only at Absolute
Poker. Anyone who attempts to collude while playing
at Absolute Poker will not only be permanently banned from
AbsolutePoker but will also be entered into a black
list data base."
"Absolute
Poker has state-of-the-art algorithms. Aside from
just the algorithms collusion will be watched for by a team
of professionals. The algorithms will track any collusion
through Absolute Poker's sophisticated software as well as
monitored 24 hours a day seven days a week by our team of
professional analysts. There a variety of strategies used
by our analysts to uncover and identify collusion in conjunction
with our set algorithms. Any complaints will be taken extremely
seriously by Absolute Poker and investigated to there fullest."
Hackers
Absolute
Poker is secure in the transfer of any information
between its players and our Absolute servers. We utilize the
internationally accepted industry standard SSLv3/TLSv1 encryption
algorithm to protect your information as it transfers between
our client application running on your computer and our servers.
So whether it is credit card, your name, password, your cards,
your personal address and any other private information is
protected. Player cards are sent directly and exclusively
to the individual player's computer without ever being susceptible
of being hacked. Also no other computer playing at your table
can see your face down cards. This security is the best available
and prevents any hacking and ultimately collusion to take
place.
Card
Shuffling
"It
is critical for card shuffling to take place using a shuffle
algorithm as part of our software. This shuffling algorithm
is fair and unpredictable. There is no deck of cards that
is shuffled as thoroughly as the Absolute Poker algorithm
shuffles our cards. Each game, the deck is shuffled 10 times
with each shuffle moving each card somewhere between 1 and
51 times throughout the deck (10 passes at Knuth's full shuffle
algorithm).
In
addition to the shuffling algorithm is the random number generator.
The entropy pool needs to be large enough to allow it to be
impossible for any player to have over the other players.
If
you have any questions with regard to any integrity or security
issues, please do not hesitate to contact Absolute Poker.
A
deck of 52 cards can be shuffled in 52! ways. 52! is about
2225. We use 249 random bits from both entropy sources (user
input and thermal noise) to achieve an even and unpredictable
statistical distribution."
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