Crowns Cup Security Concept
Security and fairness have utmost priority at Crowns Cup. For that reason, we dedicate all our time and effort to the goal of offering the absolute safest and fairest environment possible for online games. To ensure equal and honest conditions for all players, Crowns Cup is subject to the control and observation by the Lotteries and Gaming Authority Malta .
If you have any questions concerning our security concept and/or the precautions, which we at Crowns Cup have taken, please contact our security specialists: security@crownscup.com.
Protection of Privacy
All data that goes in or out of Crowns Cup is encrypted to protect our customers. If you enter sensitive information such as your password or your credit card information, we can guarantee that this information is not made accessible to third parties.
We at Crowns Cup use the industry-norm OpenSSL , to guarantee the safe SSLv3/TLSv1 data communication to and from our system. OpenSSL has been tested extensively, is revised regularly and is considered to be the most stable and reliable security systems available at the present time.
For more information about our privacy protection guidelines, please read our terms and conditions.
How we Protect our Players
Crowns Cup considers it their responsibility to offer their players maximum protection. For that purpose, we use advanced control-software for both Poker and Backgammon, in order to detect and prohibit unfair play and improper collusion. Further information about our strategy and measures against improper collusion for poker can be found here. Also Backgammon games are subject to exact monitoring to uncover the use of forbidden aids. You'll find more details here.
Backgammon Dice
Crowns Cup is the proud user of the best randomizing generator of the online-game-industry: the SG100 . The SG 100 is made by the Swedish firm Protego and is used exclusively for Backgammon. It is based on a hardware-diode and consequently produces true random numbers. Not even the so-called precision-dice, which are often used with Backgammon, can come anywhere near reaching the randomness of our randomizing generator. Due to these attributes, it is absolutely impossible to predict the dice numbers. The dice throws are generated on our game server and then sent to the clients. This makes it impossible for the players to manipulate them. You will find statistical test results concerning the randomness of the numbers produced by the SG100 at the SG100 Web-site .
Poker Card Shuffling
In contrast to Backgammon, we at Crowns Cup do not make use of the SG100 for Poker. Instead, we use the ISAAC pseudo-randomizing generator. The name ISAAC stands for Indirection , Shift , Accumulate , Add and Count . It was developed by Bob Jenkins in 1996 and is considered to be cryptographically secure. To date, there is no known successful attack which jeopardized the practical security of ISAAC. More information about ISAAC can be found at the official ISAAC Web-site.
On the one hand, Crowns Cup uses the ISAAC randomizing generator for card shuffling. In addition to that, we make use Knuth's mix-algorithm. In contrast to occasional claims, the Knuth algorithm produces no distorted results. Quite the opposite. In combination with a reliable randomizer (like ISAAC,) the Knuth algorithm produces absolutely reliable and random shuffling results. As you can see, the shuffling at Crowns Cup is of a world-class standard.
