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ENCRYPSHUN

ASF CURRENTLY SUPPORTS TEH FOLLOWIN ENCRYPSHUN METHODZ AS DEFINISHUN OV ECryptoMethod:

VALUE	NAYM
0	PlainText
1	AES
2	ProtectedDataForCurrentUser
3	EnvironmentVariable
4	File

TEH EGSAKT DESCRIPSHUN AN COMPARISON OV THEM IZ AVAILABLE BELOW.

IN ORDR 2 GENERATE ENCRYPTD PASWORD, E.G. 4 SteamPassword USAGE, U SHUD EXECUTE encrypt COMMAND WIF TEH APPROPRIATE ENCRYPSHUN DAT U CHOSE AN UR ORIGINAL PLAIN-TEXT PASWORD. AFTERWARDZ, PUT TEH ENCRYPTD STRIN DAT UVE GOT AS SteamPassword BOT CONFIG PROPERTY, AN FINALLY CHANGE PasswordFormat 2 TEH WAN DAT MATCHEZ UR CHOSEN ENCRYPSHUN METHOD. SUM FORMATS DO NOT REQUIRE encrypt COMMAND, 4 EXAMPLE EnvironmentVariable OR File, JUS PUT APPROPRIATE PATH 4 THEM.

`PlainText`

DIS AR TEH TEH MOST SIMPLE AN INSECURE WAI OV STORIN PASWORD, DEFIND AS ECryptoMethod OV 0. ASF EXPEX TEH STRIN 2 BE PLAIN TEXT - PASWORD IN ITZ DIRECT FORM. IZ TEH EASIEST WAN 2 USE, AN 100% COMPATIBLE WIF ALL TEH SETUPS, THEREFORE IT BE DEFAULT WAI OV STORIN SECRETS, TOTALLY INSECURE 4 SAFE STORAGE.

`AES`

CONSIDERD SECURE BY TODAI STANDARDZ, AES WAI OV STORIN TEH PASWORD IZ DEFIND AS ECryptoMethod OV 1. ASF EXPEX TEH STRIN 2 BE BASE64-ENCODD SEQUENCE OV CHARACTERS RESULTIN IN AES-ENCRYPTD BYTE ARRAY AFTR TRANZLASHUN, WHICH DEN SHUD BE DECRYPTD USIN INCLUDD INITIALIZASHUN VECTOR AN ASF ENCRYPSHUN KEY.

TEH METHOD ABOOV GUARANTEEZ SECURITY AS LONG AS ATTACKR DOESNT KNOE ASF ENCRYPSHUN KEY WHICH IZ BEAN USD 4 DECRYPSHUN AS WELL AS ENCRYPSHUN OV PASWORDZ. ASF ALLOWS U 2 SPECIFY KEY VIA --cryptkey COMMAND-LINE ARGUMENT, WHICH U SHUD USE 4 MAXIMUM SECURITY. IF U DECIDE 2 OMIT IT, ASF WILL USE ITZ OWN KEY WHICH IZ KNOWN AN HARDCODD INTO TEH APPLICASHUN, MEANIN ANYBODY CAN REVERSE TEH ASF ENCRYPSHUN AN GIT DECRYPTD PASWORD. IT STILL REQUIREZ SUM EFFORT AN IZ NOT DAT EASY 2 DO, BUT POSIBLE, THAZ Y U SHUD ALMOST ALWAYS USE AES ENCRYPSHUN WIF UR OWN --cryptkey WHICH IZ KEPT IN SEEKRET. AES METHOD USD IN ASF PROVIDEZ SECURITY DAT SHUD BE SATISFYIN AN IT BE BALANCE TWEEN SIMPLICITY OV PlainText AN COMPLEXITY OV ProtectedDataForCurrentUser, BUT IZ HIGHLY RECOMMENDD 2 USE IT WIF CUSTOM --cryptkey. IF USD PROPERLY, GUARANTEEZ DESENT SECURITY 4 SAFE STORAGE.

`ProtectedDataForCurrentUser`

CURRENTLY TEH MOST SECURE WAI OV ENCRYPTIN TEH PASWORD DAT ASF OFFERS, AN MUTCH SAFR THAN AES METHOD EXPLAIND ABOOV, IZ DEFIND AS ECryptoMethod OV 2. TEH MAJOR ADVANTAGE OV DIS METHOD IZ AT TEH SAME TIEM TEH MAJOR DISADVANTAGE - INSTEAD OV USIN ENCRYPSHUN KEY (LIEK IN AES), DATA IZ ENCRYPTD USIN LOGIN CREDENTIALS OV CURRENTLY LOGGD IN USR, WHICH MEANZ DAT IZ POSIBLE 2 DECRYPT TEH DATA ONLY ON TEH MACHINE IT WUZ ENCRYPTD ON, AN IN ADDISHUN 2 DAT, ONLY BY TEH USR HOO ISSUD TEH ENCRYPSHUN. DIS ENSUREZ DAT EVEN IF U SEND UR ENTIRE Bot.json WIF ENCRYPTD SteamPassword USIN DIS METHOD 2 SOMEBODY ELSE, HE WILL NOT BE ABLE 2 DECRYPT TEH PASWORD WITHOUT DIRECT ACCES 2 UR PC. DIS AR TEH AWSUM SECURITY MEASURE, BUT AT TEH SAME TIEM HAS MAJOR DISADVANTAGE OV BEAN LEAST COMPATIBLE, AS TEH PASWORD ENCRYPTD USIN DIS METHOD WILL BE INCOMPATIBLE WIF ANY OTHR USR AS WELL AS MACHINE - INCLUDIN UR OWN IF U DECIDE 2 E.G. REINSTALL UR OPERATIN SISTEM. STILL, IZ WAN OV TEH BEST METHODZ OV STORIN PASWORDZ, AN IF URE WORRID BOUT SECURITY OV PlainText, AN DOAN WANTS 2 PUT PASWORD EACH TIEM, DEN DIS AR TEH UR BEST BET AS LONG AS U DOAN HAS 2 ACCES UR CONFIGS FRUM ANY OTHR MACHINE THAN UR OWN.

PLZ NOWT DAT DIS OPSHUN IZ AVAILABLE ONLY 4 MACHINEZ RUNNIN WINDOWS OS AS OV NAO.

`EnvironmentVariable`

MEMS-BASD STORAGE DEFIND AS ECryptoMethod OV 3. ASF WILL READ TEH PASWORD FRUM TEH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE WIF GIVEN NAYM SPECIFID IN DA PASWORD FIELD (E.G. SteamPassword). 4 EXAMPLE, SETTIN SteamPassword 2 ASF_PASSWORD_MYACCOUNT AN PasswordFormat 2 3 WILL CAUSE ASF 2 EVALUATE ${ASF_PASSWORD_MYACCOUNT} ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE AN USE WHATEVR IZ ASSIGND 2 IT AS TEH AKOWNT PASWORD.

`File`

FILE-BASD STORAGE (POSIBLY OUTSIDE OV TEH ASF CONFIG DIRECTORY) DEFIND AS ECryptoMethod OV 4. ASF WILL READ TEH PASWORD FRUM TEH FILE PATH SPECIFID IN DA PASWORD FIELD (E.G. SteamPassword). TEH SPECIFID PATH CAN BE EITHR ABSOLUTE, OR RELATIV 2 ASFS "HOME" LOCASHUN (TEH FOLDR WIF CONFIG DIRECTORY INSIDE, TAKIN INTO AKOWNT --path COMMAND-LINE ARGUMENT). DIS METHOD CAN BE USD 4 EXAMPLE WIF DOCKR SECRETS, WHICH CREATE SUCH FILEZ 4 USAGE, BUT CAN ALSO BE USD OUTSIDE OV DOCKR IF U CREATE APPROPRIATE FILE YOURSELF. 4 EXAMPLE, SETTIN SteamPassword 2 /etc/secrets/MyAccount.pass AN PasswordFormat 2 4 WILL CAUSE ASF 2 READ /etc/secrets/MyAccount.pass AN USE WHATEVR IZ WRITTEN 2 DAT FILE AS TEH AKOWNT PASWORD.

REMEMBR 2 ENSURE DAT FILE CONTAININ TEH PASWORD IZ NOT READABLE BY UNAUTHORIZD USERS, AS DAT DEFEATS TEH WHOLE PURPOSE OV USIN DIS METHOD.

Encryption recommendations

IF COMPATIBILITY IZ NOT AN ISSUE 4 U, AN URE FINE WIF TEH WAI HOW ProtectedDataForCurrentUser METHOD WERKZ, IT TEH RECOMMENDD OPSHUN OV STORIN TEH PASWORD IN ASF, AS IT PROVIDEZ TEH BEST SECURITY. AES METHOD IZ GUD CHOICE 4 PEEPS HOO STILL WANTS 2 MAK USE OV THEIR CONFIGS ON ANY MACHINE THEY WANTS, WHILE PlainText IZ TEH MOST SIMPLE WAI OV STORIN TEH PASWORD, IF U DOAN MIND DAT ANYBODY CAN LOOK INTO JSON CONFIGURASHUN FILE 4 IT.

PLZ KEEP IN MIND DAT ALL OV DOSE 3 METHODZ R CONSIDERD INSECURE IF ATTACKR HAS ACCES 2 UR PC. ASF MUST BE ABLE 2 DECRYPT TEH ENCRYPTD PASWORDZ, AN IF TEH PROGRAM RUNNIN ON UR MACHINE IZ CAPABLE OV DOIN DAT, DEN ANY OTHR PROGRAM RUNNIN ON TEH SAME MACHINE WILL BE CAPABLE OV DOIN SO, 2. ProtectedDataForCurrentUser IZ TEH MOST SECURE VARIANT AS EVEN OTHR USR USIN TEH SAME PC WILL NOT BE ABLE 2 DECRYPT IT, BUT IZ STILL POSIBLE 2 DECRYPT TEH DATA IF SOMEBODY IZ ABLE 2 STEEL UR LOGIN CREDENTIALS AN MACHINE INFO IN ADDISHUN 2 ASF CONFIG FILE.

4 ADVANCD SETUPS, U CAN UTILIZE EnvironmentVariable AN File. THEY HAS LIMITD USABILITY, TEH EnvironmentVariable WILL BE GUD IDEA IF UD PREFR 2 OBTAIN PASWORD THRU SUM KIND OV CUSTOM SOLUSHUN AN STORE IT IN MEMS EXCLUSIVELY, WHILE File IZ GUD 4 EXAMPLE WIF DOCKR SECRETS. BOTH OV THEM R UNENCRYPTD HOWEVR, SO U BASICALLY MOOV TEH RISK FRUM ASF CONFIG FILE 2 WHATEVR U PICK FRUM DOSE 2.

IN ADDISHUN 2 ENCRYPSHUN METHODZ SPECIFID ABOOV, IZ POSIBLE 2 ALSO AVOID SPECIFYIN PASWORDZ ENTIRELY, 4 EXAMPLE AS SteamPassword BY USIN AN EMPTY STRIN OR null VALUE. ASF WILL ASK U 4 UR PASWORD WHEN IZ REQUIRD, AN WONT SAVE IT ANYWHERE BUT KEEP IN MEMS OV CURRENTLY RUNNIN PROCES, TIL U CLOSE IT. WHILE BEAN TEH MOST SECURE METHOD OV DEALIN WIF PASWORDZ (THEYRE NOT SAVD ANYWHERE), IZ ALSO TEH MOST TROUBLESOME AS U NED 2 ENTR UR PASWORD MANUALLY ON EACH ASF RUN (WHEN IZ REQUIRD). IF THAZ NOT PROBLEM 4 U, DIS AR TEH UR BEST BET SECURITY-WIZE.

DECRYPSHUN

ASF DOESNT SUPPORT ANY WAI OV DECRYPTIN ALREADY ENCRYPTD PASWORDZ, AS DECRYPSHUN METHODZ R USD ONLY INTERNALLY 4 ACCESIN TEH DATA INSIDE TEH PROCES. IF U WANTS 2 REVERT ENCRYPSHUN PROCEDURE E.G. 4 MOVIN ASF 2 OTHR MACHINE WHEN USIN ProtectedDataForCurrentUser, DEN SIMPLY REPEAT TEH PROCEDURE FRUM BEGINNIN IN DA NEW ENVIRONMENT.

HASHIN

ASF CURRENTLY SUPPORTS TEH FOLLOWIN HASHIN METHODZ AS DEFINISHUN OV EHashingMethod:

VALUE	NAYM
0	PlainText
1	SCrypt
2	Pbkdf2

TEH EGSAKT DESCRIPSHUN AN COMPARISON OV THEM IZ AVAILABLE BELOW.

IN ORDR 2 GENERATE HASH, E.G. 4 IPCPassword USAGE, U SHUD EXECUTE hash COMMAND WIF TEH APPROPRIATE HASHIN METHOD DAT U CHOSE AN UR ORIGINAL PLAIN-TEXT PASWORD. AFTERWARDZ, PUT TEH HASHD STRIN DAT UVE GOT AS IPCPassword ASF CONFIG PROPERTY, AN FINALLY CHANGE IPCPasswordFormat 2 TEH WAN DAT MATCHEZ UR CHOSEN HASHIN METHOD.

`PLAINTEXT`

DIS AR TEH TEH MOST SIMPLE AN INSECURE WAI OV HASHIN PASWORD, DEFIND AS EHashingMethod OV 0. ASF WILL GENERATE HASH MATCHIN TEH ORIGINAL INPUT. IZ TEH EASIEST WAN 2 USE, AN 100% COMPATIBLE WIF ALL TEH SETUPS, THEREFORE IT BE DEFAULT WAI OV STORIN SECRETS, TOTALLY INSECURE 4 SAFE STORAGE.

`SCrypt`

CONSIDERD SECURE BY TODAI STANDARDZ, SCRYPT WAI OV HASHIN TEH PASWORD IZ DEFIND AS EHashingMethod OV 1. ASF WILL USE TEH SCrypt IMPLEMENTASHUN USIN 8 BLOCKZ, 8192 ITERASHUNS, 32 HASH LENGTH AN ENCRYPSHUN KEY AS SALT 2 GENERATE TEH ARRAY OV BYTEZ. TEH RESULTIN BYTEZ WILL DEN BE ENCODD AS BASE64 STRIN.

ASF ALLOWS U 2 SPECIFY SALT 4 DIS METHOD VIA --cryptkey COMMAND-LINE ARGUMENT, WHICH U SHUD USE 4 MAXIMUM SECURITY. IF U DECIDE 2 OMIT IT, ASF WILL USE ITZ OWN KEY WHICH IZ KNOWN AN HARDCODD INTO TEH APPLICASHUN, MEANIN HASHIN WILL BE LES SECURE. IF USD PROPERLY, GUARANTEEZ DESENT SECURITY 4 SAFE STORAGE.

`Pbkdf2`

CONSIDERD WEAK BY TODAI STANDARDZ,PBKDF2 WAI OV HASHIN TEH PASWORD IZ DEFIND AS EHashingMethod OV 2. ASF WILL USE TEH Pbkdf2 IMPLEMENTASHUN USIN 10000 ITERASHUNS, 32 HASH LENGTH AN ENCRYPSHUN KEY AS SALT, WIF SHA-256 AS HMAC ALGORITHM 2 GENERATE TEH ARRAY OV BYTEZ. TEH RESULTIN BYTEZ WILL DEN BE ENCODD AS BASE64 STRIN.

ASF ALLOWS U 2 SPECIFY SALT 4 DIS METHOD VIA --cryptkey COMMAND-LINE ARGUMENT, WHICH U SHUD USE 4 MAXIMUM SECURITY. IF U DECIDE 2 OMIT IT, ASF WILL USE ITZ OWN KEY WHICH IZ KNOWN AN HARDCODD INTO TEH APPLICASHUN, MEANIN HASHIN WILL BE LES SECURE.

Hashing recommendations

IF UD LIEK 2 USE HASHIN METHOD 4 STORIN SUM SECRETS, SUCH AS IPCPassword, WE RECOMMEND 2 USE SCrypt WIF CUSTOM SALT, AS IT PROVIDEZ VRY DESENT SECURITY AGAINST BRUTE-FORCIN ATTEMPTS. Pbkdf2 IZ OFFERD ONLY 4 COMPATIBILITY REASONS, MAINLY CUZ WE ALREADY HAS WERKIN (AN NEEDD) IMPLEMENTASHUN OV IT 4 OTHR USE CASEZ ACROS STEAM PLATFORM (E.G. PARENTAL PINS). IZ STILL CONSIDERD SECURE, BUT WEAK COMPARD 2 ALTERNATIVEZ (E.G. SCrypt).