Over the last two days, myself and pepper have been making a MSN Messenger status service that will be distributed across multiple servers for ultimate reliability. The framework of it is based on Blobsy. There is no way to determine a persons MSN Address by the image link that you follow, this is because the address is encoded with the Rjindael Algorithm with 256 bit encryption. Then, to allow it to be web accessible it uses base64 on top of that. To put it simply:
MSN Address|
of person | -> Rjindael Encryption @ 256 Bit with unique key -> Base64 Encryption.
__________|
Even though Base64 is decodable, Rjindael is not. Rjindael is considered to be the most secure encryption algorithm available today, as defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
I hope to have the service available soon, the bot is currently online, all we have to do is make the PHP Script that generates the GD Images, and then find a way to distribute the load of the images/bandwidth.
Enjoy.
End Note: For all of you who are beta testers, you can add me to your msn with this address:
brent.pickup [at] nobots dawt gmail d0t com. Remove the nobots.
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