1Password wants to connect to external IP's

richards

Hello,



I'm using 1password, but I'm a little bit concerned about it, because it tries to connect to external IP's like 74.125.79.121 with a strange domainname like [url="http://ey-in-f121.1e100.net/"]http://ey-in-f121.1e100.net/[/url]



Maybe it's just an update process, but I don't really trust it, because of the strange hostname, and because my firewall pops up everytime. The firewall also sends me warnings about application changes.



So... how can I be sure my passworddata is really safe? I don't exactly know what 1password is doing every time it wants to connect to external servers! <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/skype_sadsmile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':-(' />



Kind regards,

Richard

khad

Welcome to the forums, Richard. That is a Google server. We use Google App Engine for updates.



From [url="http://support.google.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=174717"]Google's own support article[/url] on the topic:



[quote]

1e100.net is a Google-owned domain name used to identify the servers in our network.



Following standard industry practice, we make sure each IP address has a corresponding hostname. In October 2009, we started using a single domain name to identify our servers across all Google products, rather than use different product domains such as youtube.com, blogger.com, and google.com. We did this for two reasons: first, to keep things simpler, and second, to proactively improve security by protecting against potential threats such as cross-site scripting attacks.



Most typical Internet users will never see 1e100.net, but we picked a Googley name for it just in case ([b]1e100 is scientific notation for 1 googol[/b]).[/quote]



I hope that helps. <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />



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