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Answered on Jan 24, 2022
From ws vs wss, you should use the secure WebSockets protocol in your product. Given (extremely little) information you provided about the details of your game*. Only general answer is possible to the question**: What is the worst thing that could happen if I don't enable wss? If you design and build a system disregarding common security precautions:
at best nothing will happen; then there is a whole gray area where you might either end up losing an opportunity, or have to allocate excessive resources to make up for the initial decision; at worst - there is no limit to bad things that may happen.
* It is impossible to evaluate the impact of using unencrypted communication without knowing in full detail what the game is. Particularly: How are you capitalizing on games? Are users playing against each other? Are users incentivised to cheat (either materially or in form of score tables)? The information required for such an analysis should also include future development of the game, for example what to do if it catches on and you change the model from free and decide to capitalize in future. ** An audit of all possible dangers for using unencrypted communication in a product must take into account so many factors that it would quickly exceed the costs of implementing proper encryption techniques.
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Answered on Feb 16, 2026
wss isn’t just about secrets; without it, anyone on the same network can tamper with packets, inject moves, steal session tokens, or downgrade players into desyncs, and anti-cheat gets way harder. if you’re worried about latency, tls overhead is usually tiny compared to your tick rate and payload size, and you can still keep messages compact. i learned this the annoying way when testing on public wifi while a teammate had https://bestaviatorapp.com/rajabets-casino/ open in a tab and my ws traffic got messed with through a captive portal. another time a “free wifi” page redirected me mid-session right after i clicked https://plinkogamesonline.org/casino/7star-casino/ and the connection just broke. i’d rather pay the small cpu cost than deal with that, and i also don’t want anyone sniffing auth if a player logs in after visiting https://indianaviatrix.com/22bet-casino/ during a break.
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