Comment on A Message About Vanguard From Our Security and Privacy TeamsparentComments−ds6yThat heavy lifting wasnt done by myself so I unfortunately dont have a answer for you. This was around a decade ago however, so I would not be surprised if the traffic was unencrypted.−XMPPwocky6ySource did not encrypt network traffic until DeepBlueSea released NetShark for CS:GO.Now it uses ICE, a 64-bit block cipher from the DES era. The key is obtained from the Steam servers over the normal Steam encrypted channel.
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That heavy lifting wasnt done by myself so I unfortunately dont have a answer for you. This was around a decade ago however, so I would not be surprised if the traffic was unencrypted.
Source did not encrypt network traffic until DeepBlueSea released NetShark for CS:GO.
Now it uses ICE, a 64-bit block cipher from the DES era. The key is obtained from the Steam servers over the normal Steam encrypted channel.